Two men caught with human head

Two men were on Friday in Ibadan paraded by
the police for possessing a decomposing
human head. One of the men, Seyi Akinola,
was arrested in an ambush operation by the
police while Ajitoni Ogundeji was named by
Akinola as his accomplice in the crime.
Ogundeji, who is a farmer and a hunter, was
alleged to have instructed Akinola to bring a
human head to prepare a charm that would
protect him from gunshot.
Akinola, who is also a hunter, had complained
to Ogundeji that he experienced frequent
robbery attacks on the road whenever he
travelled.
While on hunting expedition at night about
two weeks ago, Akinola allegedly saw the
corpse of a dead mad woman in a bush.
He later cut off the head and hid it on a tree
to decompose.
Ten days later, he returned to pick the head at
the place where he kept it but unknown to
him, the community had alerted the police
after discovering the head on the tree. After
walking into the ambush, he was arrested and
taken to the police station at Ojoo area of
Ibadan. During questioning, he told the police
that Ogundeji told him to bring the head to
prepare anti-bullet charm. While speaking to
journalists at the station, Akinola confessed to
the crime.
“I was caught with a human head by the
police on Friday morning. I travelled a lot
when I was working as a shepherd to a herd
of cattle, but there are incidences of robbery
attacks on the road. I told Ogundeji about it
and he said he could do a charm for me
against gunshot if I could get a human head.”