OAU Student Murdered for Rituals: Two Suspects Arrested
Two suspects arrested in connection with the ritual murder of an 18-year-old Obafemi Awolowo University student
Chukwuebuka Aniakor 
In a shocking incident, an 18-year-old 100-level student of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Quadri Salami, was allegedly killed for rituals. The Ogun State Police Command has arrested two persons, Akeem Usman and Niyi Ifadowo, in connection with the crime.
The state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), SP Omolola Odutola, disclosed this in a statement issued in Abeokuta on Wednesday. She stated that Mr Salami’s father reported his son missing at the Kemta Police station, Abeokuta, on November 14, stating that his son had been missing since November 8.
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The Commissioner of Police in Ogun, Abiodun Alamutu, personally led a team of Tactical Squad to Mile 6 in the Ajebo area of Abeokuta on Wednesday. The team exhumed the decomposing body parts of the deceased from a shallow grave after a tracking clue led to the arrest of Usman, who was found in possession of the victim’s phone.
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Usman implicated Ifadowo in the crime, stating that they both slaughtered the victim and dismembered his vital parts for ritual purposes. Ifadowo allegedly took away the deceased’s head and his two wrists and paid the sum of N100,000 into Usman’s account as proceeds from the sale of Salami’s other body parts.
The suspects continued to sell the victim’s other body parts on demand to Internet fraudsters. They buried the heart, two legs, and flesh inside a plastic rubber for rituals and used the remaining parts for a crime against humanity.
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In their confessional statement, the duo admitted that they had used four other human heads for money rituals. The suspects are now in Eleweran at the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) for further investigation and will be prosecuted.
The police spokesperson said that the CP is committed to ensuring that justice is served and will continue to investigate further to bring all perpetrators to face the full extent of the law. She urged parents to collectively work together with the police by volunteering information to eradicate such nefarious practices.
