| Demonic: Another ritualist
nabbed ...with human parts
BY SEGUN AJIBOYE, MIKE JIMOH & AKEEB ALARAPE
(Ibadan)
Sunday, August 8, 2004
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Dauda
Photo: Sun News Publishing
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Another ritualist nabbed with human parts...
in Ibadan
The Police in Ibadan, Oyo State, were yesterday confronted
with a gory spectacle, following the shocking discovery of
human parts concealed in a sack by a commuter.
The man, Dauda Azeez, suspected to be a ritualist, was promptly
arrested by the police at a check point along Iwo Road in
the state capital.
The arrest of the ritualist is coming on the heels of the
discovery last week of 20 human skulls and 50 corpses at Ogwugwu
shrine in Okija, Ihiala Local Government Area of Anambra State.
Specifically, the police said that Azeez was arrested with
a sack containing the parts of a human being suspected to
be that of an elderly man and a baby whose head and private
parts had already been severed.
Police sources said Azeez claimed that the man whose body
parts he was carrying was his friend who died of injuries
he allegedly sustained from a snake bite.
While he is being held at the state command, a Police source
told Sunday Sun at the weekend that detectives are interrogating
the suspect with a view to using his testimony to resolve
the puzzle over serial killings in the state.
In another operation also in Ibadan, the Police, acting in
concert with a vigilante group around Sango Eleyele area Friday
arrested 20 suspected student cultists from different institutions
of higher learning.
The students were allegedly arrested by the vigilante men
from their initiation ground.
Among those paraded by the Police were one serving Youth Corps
member from Kano State, Oluwadare Kolawole; one student of
the Lagos State Polytechnic (LASPOTECH),Williams Ayomide and
two others from Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH),
Ogbomoso, Elufisan Yemi and Jide Daramola.
Others are Adeyeye Salisu, Soda Oladapo, Adeyemi Gbemisola,
Babajide Oladejo, Olalekan Animasaun, Tunde Saeed, Taiwo Olaniran,
Anthony Enigbokan and Adefuye Adeyinka from The Polytechnic,
Ibadan.
Also from the same institution were Adetona Abiodun, AdeyemiKola,
Femi Asukuna, Olarenwaju Azeez and Taiwo Osundiya.
One of the suspected cultists, Samuel Olabode claimed to be
a newly admitted student of Portsmouth University, United
Kingdom (U.K) while another, Oluwasegun Oyinlola described
himself as a ‘potential’ student.
Out of the 20 suspects, only Tunde Saeed accepted being a
member of the cult group, the Buccaneer. He, however, said
that he has since renounced his membership of the group.
The Corps member among them, Kolawole said he came to Ibadan
from Kano where he is serving to collect some money from his
parents in preparation for the passing out parade due next
month.
However, the image maker of the Oyo State Police Command,
DSP Babatunde Sodimu said all the 20 suspected cultists would
soon be arraigned in court.
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