The Kwara State Police Command has arrested four men in connection with two separate incidents involving the alleged removal of human heads from exhumed graves and the possession of suspected human hands allegedly intended for money-making rituals.
The Commissioner of Police, Ojo Adekimi, disclosed the arrests while briefing journalists at the command headquarters in Ilorin.
In the first incident, two men, identified as Abu Jimoh and Ayo Jimoh, were arrested over the alleged exhumation of graves and removal of heads from buried bodies at a cemetery in Omupo, Kwara State, the two suspects reportedly confessed to the crime and identified a herbalist, Mukaila Bello, as the alleged buyer of the missing human heads.
In a separate case, the police arrested two other men, Kamalden Lukmon and AbdulGaniyu Ibrahim, after recovering two suspected human hands during an operation along Bakase Road in Alapa, Kwara State, indicated that the two suspects intended to use the body parts for money-making rituals.
The command added that Investigations are ongoing, and the suspects will be arraigned in court upon the conclusion of the investigation.
