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Operatives of the Ogun State Police Command yesterday arrested two middle-aged men, Michael Oyewole and Mathew Akiode, for allegedly being in possession of a human skull in Abeokuta, the state capital.
Commissioner of Police, Ikemefuna Okoye, who paraded the suspects at the police command headquarters, Eleweran, Abeokuta, also said they would soon be charged to court on completion of investigation.
Briefing reporters, the police boss disclosed that Oyewole, a 32-year-old pastor, and Akiode, 30, who claimed to be a bricklayer, were nabbed in Sabo area of Abeokuta.
Okoye said the arrest of Akiode, while exhuming a decomposed corpse from a grave, led to the subsequent arrest of the cleric.
He said: “At about midnight, we got information about somebody who was digging a grave and we swung into action. He never knew that eagle eyes were watching him in the process of removing the corpse.
“We apprehended him immediately he severed the head from the body and he told us that it was one Pastor Oyewole that sent him.”
Fielding questions from reporters, Akiode confessed to the crime, saying he was contracted by Oyewole to fetch human skulls at the rate of N6,000 each.
He, however, blamed the country’s poor economic situation for his decision to commit the crime.
“I used to work on his (pastor) site but he said I will make more money if I can get him human skulls for N6,000 per head. So, I felt it was an easy way of making money; that was why I did it,” Akiode said.
But Oyewole, who claimed to own a church – Ona-Ara Mimo Cherubim and Seraphim Church, Olomoore, Abeokuta – denied complicity in the crime.
“I am man of God. I only gave him bricklaying job and he charged N8,000 and I have paid him N2,000, remaining N6,000. I heal people with God’s name and not with human skull. He was just telling lies and I don’t know what I have done to him. Only God can save me now,” he said.
