Police arrest 26-year-old suspected ritualist who bathes daily with human head

Franklin Akinyosuyi, 26, a suspected ritualist, has given an explanation for why he takes daily showers with a human head.

According to Akinyosuyi, he bought human body parts from a herbalist in Osun, including a human skull.

The suspect, who was paraded over the weekend by the Ondo state police command with other accused criminals, said in an interview that he was acting on the advice of a herbalist to help his struggling photography and boutique business.

According to him ” I am a photographer and I own a boutique as well. It was last year that my uncle took me to a herbalist.

“I explained to him that my business wasn’t moving well, so he asked me to pay N200,000 to make concoction for me which I paid within three weeks.

“After he was done, he called me to come pick it and that was last year November. He directed that I should be bathing with the human head every Thursday at exactly 1am.

” I used it for a month but didn’t see any difference in my business. So, I had to call the herbalist and told him to refund my money.

“I also asked him to come and pick the human head as well but he refused to come and pick it, but he had started refunding my money because he already sent me N20,000.

” So, on that faithful day, I decided to go and throw it away, so I dropped it at my backyard. Unfortunately, I went out and before I could return, my landlord’s children saw it, informed their father and they ultimately called the police.

“After we were arrested, the herbalist claimed that he paid someone to get the human head”, the suspect said.

Funmi Odunlami, a police spokeswoman, stated that after questioning the accused ritualist and finding a human skull in his possession, authorities arrested an evangelist named Oyegoke Dare who had given the suspect the skull and other fetish items.

She added that ” one Oyelade Sarafa an herbalist who also confessed to have helped in procuring the skull from one Asekun (a vigilante) in Ikirun was also arrested.

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