The two suspected hoodlums, arrested for being in possession of the burnt skulls of the two policemen set ablaze in Ibadan during the #EndSARS protest gave the graphic details of how they sold the skulls for ₦1,000 when paraded on Friday.
The suspects, Adewale Abiodun (17) and Aliu Mubarak (24) told journalists at the police headquarters in Eleyele, Ibadan that they sold the skulls to an herbalist in their neighbourhood.
The duo, alongside the herbalist, Oladipupo Ifakorede, were reportedly arrested at Oluwo area of Ibadan by men of the Quick Intervention Unit of the Oyo State Police Command on November 15.
“On Monday, October 22, Mubarak asked me to follow him to Alabata area in Ibadan, where his wife was staying. We got to Iwo Road and saw that the road had been blocked. Smoke was billowing. When we moved closer to see what was happening, we saw humans being burnt.
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“The mob was hitting the burnt bodies with sticks, and started taking the body parts. Mubarak came to me and said he wanted to take some of the body parts. He said he had someone he would sell them to. Mubarak went to take the two skulls.
“We went to the native doctor’s residence in our neighbourhood. After negotiation, the native doctor gave us ₦500 with the promise to pay the balance of ₦500. He told us he was not the one who would use them, but that he would take them to a cleric in Ilorin, Kwara State, for ritual purpose.
“After leaving the residence of the native doctor, Mubarak and I went to a restaurant and used the ₦500 to eat. About 7pm the same day, the native doctor saw me at a junction in our area and gave me ₦500 balance. Mubarak and I shared the money at ₦250 each on the third day,” Abiodun narrated.
Corroborating Abiodun’s confession, Mubarak said, “some people in the crowd removed hands, legs, fingers and feet, while others gathered the ashes from the burnt bodies and took them away. I told Abiodun that I would take the skulls.”
Oyo State Commissioner of Police, Nwachukwu Enwonwu, said the suspects would soon be arraigned.
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