Decomposing Body Of Missing OAU Undergraduate Found In Ogun

Body of the missing 18-year-old Quadri Sallami, 100-level student of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), who was allegedly slaughtered by suspected ritualists on November 14, 2023 has been found and exhumed by the Ogun State Police Command.

The deceased was said to have been missing on November 8, 2023.

According to a statement issued by the command spokesperson, Omolola Odutola, the father of Quadri had on 14th November, 2023 reported at Kenta Police station, about sudden disappearance of his son, who reported that he has not set his eyes on his son since 8th of November and all efforts to locate him proved abortive.

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Police spokesperson in the state, Omolola Odutola, in a statement, said that two suspects have been arrested over alleged connection with the crime.

However, Commissioner of Police in the state, Abiodun Alamutu, led a team of Tactical Squad to Mile 6 in Ajemo area of Abeokuta to a shallow grave to exhume the decomposing body parts of the deceased after a tracking clue beamed at one of the suspects, Akeem Usman, who was arrested in possession of the victim’s phone.

The PPRO added that, “He (Akeem) implicated one Ifadowo Niyi that both of them committed the heinous crime by slaughtering the victim (Quadri) and dismembered his vital parts for ritual purposes”.

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“He added that Ifadowo went away with Quadri’s head, and his two wrist, and paid the sum of one hundred thousand Naira into Akeem Usman’s account as proceeds from the sale of the human body parts”.

“The suspects thereafter continued to sell the victim’s other body parts on demand to internet fraudsters and buried the heart, two legs, and flesh inside a plastic rubber for rituals and used the remaining parts for “awure” a crime against humanity”.

“Among their confessional statement, the duo admitted that they have used four other human heads for money rituals known as “Osole”

The suspects are now in Eleweran at the State Criminal Investigation Department for continuation of discreet investigation and prosecution.