The Oyo State Police Command, on Tuesday, paraded 42 suspects for offences ranging from murder, armed robbery, cultism, diversion of goods, and recovered fresh human parts.

The new Commissioner of Police, Adebowale Williams, made this known while parading the suspects at the command’s headquarters in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital.

Other exhibits recovered from the suspects included arms and ammunition, vehicles, motorcycles, tricycles, 23 mobile phones, five cutlasses, Hemp, N120,000 cash, clothes, embalmed human flesh, two small knives, among others.

Williams said the Department of State Services (DSS), on May 31, transferred to the command, a case of conspiracy and murder after arresting a 31-year-old suspect linked with the crime.

He said the suspect allegedly engaged in ritual killing and selling of human parts, which were unlawfully found in his possession.

The police commissioner stated that the principal suspect, upon interrogation, confessed to have murdered a 26-year-old man, Wale Adefabi, who visited him along with his girlfriend, one Layelawa Simbiat.

“The principal suspect further mentioned his two other accomplices in the murder of the deceased and sequel upon this information, detectives from Homicide Section swung into action and apprehended them.

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“The other accomplices have also confessed to have murdered the deceased together with the principal suspect and that the deceased body parts wi shared among themselves for ritual,” he said.

Williams added that the flesh of the deceased was recovered from the principal suspect and was taken to the University College Hospital (UCH) for Forensic Analysis.

He further stated that investigation was still ongoing to apprehend other culprits who were mentioned in the murder of the deceased.

He said the paraded suspects would be charged to court after the conclusion of investigation.

Speaking with journalists, one of the suspects, who claimed to be an Islamic cleric, said they poisoned the tea served the deceased which killed him.

The suspect added that they used knife to cut the deceased’s body parts and shared his parts for ritual.

The Star