This world is full
of unbelievable things. This is a pure indication of the EMBER month,
where people k*ll innocent ones for money. Recently, October 9 when the
mystery behind the headless corpses they usually picked in Akinyela
local government area of Oyo state was resolved with the arrest of Seyi
Akinrinola when he went to pick a human head he hung on a tree in the
bush at Igbo-Oloyin area, Ibadan, Oyo State. Also arrested was Ajitoni
Ogundeji whom Akinrinola claimed prompted his search for a head.
On that day, policemen did a lot of work to contain the large crowd
which besieged Ojoo division of Oyo State Police Command to catch a
glimpse of the human head and the suspects in possession of it. Despite
the odour from the decomposed head, the crowd stayed put, as many more
rushed to join as soon the news spread to them.
Akinrinola thought he was smart. To avoid being detected, after securing
a head, the suspect decided to keep it on the tree until it would be
dry..
.. At about 10: 00a.m. same day, the divisional Police Officer in charge of Ojoo division, Musiliu Doga, received an information that a human head was sighted on a tree. He went out with his men to survey the place. After he confirmed the information he received to be true, the DPO reportedly put some of his men on ground to lay ambush for the person that would come to pick the head. The plan worked out. According to the Police Public Relation Officer of the command, Olabisi Okuwobi-Ilobanafor, “About an hour, after the policemen laid an ambush, they saw a man who approached the site where the head was hung on a motorcycle. He got down from the bike and, holding a polythene bag, went to where the head was hung and put it the bag. As he made to go, the policemen emerged from hiding and apprehended him.” Upon arrest, Akinrinola reportedly pleaded to be handled gently as he had an accomplice.
He disclosed to
the policemen that it was a native doctor he consulted for help who
requested for the human head in order to help him prepare a charm that
would serve as bullet proof.
In an interview, 30-year-old Akinrinola, who said he was residing at
Demilokun area of Igbo Oloyin, disclosed that he was once a butcher but
left the job to become a farmer. He denied k*lling the owner of the
head, saying that it belonged to a mad woman whose corpse he saw along
Igbo Oloyin road.
“I am a member of Oodua People’s Congress and also a farmer. When we
used to go to Saki side to buy cows, a*med robbers used to trouble us so
much on the way. I left the butcher job about five years ago but I
intend to return to it.
“Ogundeji was like a brother in my area, so I told him that I needed a
charm that would prevent bullet from entering my body in case I am shot
at. He told me that he would do it for me if I could bring a human
head.
“I found the
woman’s body along Igbo Oloyin road where she d*ed. We did not cut the
head; we just pulled it off the neck.”
When questioned on how he knew the corpse was that of a mad woman,
Akinrinola replied: “She was a mad woman, even the villagers confirmed
it. I was the one who removed the head at about 7.30p.m. about three
weeks ago. After cutting it, I travelled, but I learnt that local
government officials came to remove the headless body. Ogundeji is a
hunter; that was why I believed he would know what to do to prepare
bullet proof charm. Two days before my arrest, Ogundeji came to ask
whether I got a head and I told him I have found one. I hung the head on
a tree beside the house I was living because it was smelling.”
On whether he was an a*med robber who needed to protect himself against
an onslaught by law enforcement agents, the suspect said: “Never. I have
never r*bbed in my life. My lineage had never been involved in r*bbery.
My arrest is a great shame because I don’t even understand myself. I
have never done such a thing in my life. I am an orphan, my parents are
d*ad.
How was he caught? Akinrinola gave an answer: “I believe people from my
community who saw the head informed the police.”
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