Photo: HUMAN PARTS Sellers busted in Lagos!!!

Operatives of the Special Anti Robbery Squad, SARS,
Ikeja, Lagos have smashed a syndicate that
specialize in selling human parts, Vanguard reports.
The 3 suspects whose names were given as
Mustapha Muritala, Sunday Oluyeba and Adenike
Olanrewaju, were arrested at the Ojumerin area of
Sagamu, Ogun State following a tip off. Recovered
from the suspects were two human skulls suspected
to have been procured from a graveyard.
When interrogated, one of the suspects, 42 year old
Herbalist Mustapha Murtala, said he ventured into
the business two years ago following an offer of
N30,000 for a human skull. Continue...
"I am a herbalist from Sagamu, Ogun State. I was
introduced to human parts business by one
Sunday Oluyeba I knew through my friends,
Olanipekun and Kazim, three years ago. My
friends asked me to get native birds called
eyeoshi and eyeoke, and I succeeded in getting
them. They later came and requested a human
head with an offer of N30,000. They said they
wanted to use it to prepare concoction for a
pregnant woman in labour . They told me they
also use human parts to prepare concoction for
women who have difficulty in getting pregnant.
What they do is to grind the human skull, mix it
with water and give to the woman to drink. Such
concoction cleanses the stomach, after which she
would become pregnant. Sunday brought the
human head and I paid him N15,000 for it. This is
the second time I am buying a human skull from
him. I do not know where he got them from."
Recounting how he was arrested, Mustapha said
"I was going about my herbal business when a
man came and demanded human skull. As I
handed the nylon where I kept it to him, some
men I later discovered to be policemen swooped
on me. I have never killed anyone in my life." he
said
After his arrest, he was made to put a call across to
his partner in crime, Oluyeba, demanding a human
head. Oluyeba, who was indisposed, instructed one of
his herbalist friends, Baba Beji, to go for the supply.
He was arrested when he got there.
Further investigations by police led to the arrest of
another suspect in Sagamu. The suspect, Juwon
Olarewaju, another herbalist, reportedly fled on
sighting policemen and his wife, Mrs Olarewaju was
arrested instead.
34 year old Mrs Olarewaju, said she was shocked to
find out her husband was involved in such a trade.
She said;
"I have been married to Juwon for five years and
we have two children. My husband is a herbalist
but I didn't know he was dealing in human parts. I
was arrested in my house at about 2am over the
weekend. I swear, I didn't know anything about all
these. I was arrested because my husband whom
they came to arrest ran away. These people
implicated my husband in the matter; they said
my husband supplied them with a human head."
she said
Police say the suspects will soon be charged to court.