The mystery behind the disappearance of an 18-year-old student of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Quadri Salami, for almost a month has been unravelled by Ogun State Police Command as his decomposing body parts were discovered in a shallow grave on Wednesday, December 6, 2023, after his murder by two suspected ritual killers.
Giving an insight to how the discovery was made, the police spokeswoman, SP Omolola Odutola, said that the student’s father reported the case of his missing son at Kemta Police station on November 14.
According to the police image maker, the father told the police that he had not seen his son since November 8, and all efforts to locate him had proved abortive.
The PPRO said that report led to intelligence gathering which yielded fruit with the arrest of one Akeem Usman who was found with the missing boy’s phone.
On interrogation, Akeem opened up on how he and one Ifadowo Niyi killed the teenage student and dismembered his body for ritual purposes.
Thenewsbearer learnt that Akeem’s confession made the Commissioner of Police, Abiodun Mustapha Alamutu, to personally lead a team of tactical squad to Mile 6 in Ajebo area of Abeokuta, the state capital, from where the decomposing body parts of the deceased were exhumed from a shallow grave.
It was further learnt that the second suspect, Ifadowo, went away with Quadri’s head and two hands cut from the wrists, and paid the sum of N100,000 into Akeem’s account as proceeds from the sale of the human body parts.
The suspects reportedly continued to sell the victim’s other body parts on demand from internet fraudsters while they buried the heart, two legs and fleshy parts inside a plastic for rituals.
Akeem told the police that the remaining body parts were meant to be used for rituals to make fortune known as awure in Yoruba language.
In the confessional statements of the two suspects, they said that they had used four other human heads for money-making rituals known as Osole in Yorubaland.
“The suspects are currently at State Criminal Investigation Department at Eleweran, Abeokuta, for further investigations, and will definitely be prosecuted after the conclusion,” SP Odutola said.
She said that the police commissioner remained committed to ensuring that justice is served by making the suspects to face the full wrath of the law.
