Rider, passenger caught with fresh skull, hands

Two suspected ritual killers have been caught with a fresh human skull and hands at Shaare, Ifelodun LGA, Kwara.

Wasiu Omonose, 35, and Akanbi Ibrahim, 32, were arrested along Oke Oyi-Jebba road in Ilorin East and Moro local government areas of the state by the policemen attached to ‘Operation Harmony’ at about 11.30am.

The spokesman of the state police command, Okasanmi Ajayi, said the suspects were riding on a motorcycle when the operatives of ‘Operation Harmony’ stopped them.

“On interrogation, the suspected ritualists by name Wasiu Omonose ‘M’ aged 35yrs, of Abioye compound, Share and, one Akanbi Ibrahim ‘M’ aged 32yrs of Sayo street Share, stated that, they were taking the fresh human head and hands to an Alfa in Ilorin for ritual purposes,” Ajayi said.

Ajayi said the suspected ritualists would be prosecuted as soon as investigation into the matter was concluded.

The state commissioner of police, Tuesday Assayomo, warned criminal elements to relocate from Kwara State, “as the police command would not fold its arms and allow criminals of whatever nomenclature truncate the peace and harmony presently existing in Kwara State.