Police arrest three for trading in human skull
A statement issued by Bala Elkana, the Police Public Relations Officer in Lagos State on Sunday, said policemen from Area ‘E’ Command, Festac arrested the suspects.
Mr ELkana named them as: Dauda Tijani, 42; of No. 23, Omomwunmi St., Orege Ajegunle; Olawale Shodolamu, 70; a herbalist and Seun Falana, 37; a staff member of Trinity Cemetery in Ajegunle. He said that Mr Tijani was intercepted at Alakija Bus stop along the Lagos-Badagry Expressway by the police, who found on him a black polythene bag containing a human skull.
“The suspect confessed that he was sent by the herbalist, Shodolamu, to collect the skull from a cemetery’s attendant.“The suspected herbalist usually grinds the human skull together with other substances to prepare herbs and charms for his customers,’’ Elkana alleged. He said that the third suspect confessed that he had been digging graves in the past to remove human skulls and sell to herbalists.
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