A murder suspect, Tajudeen Monsuru, 30, allegedly involved in Iwo ritual killings has confessed that proceeds from sales of human parts are used to drink beer during his leisure hours.
Fielding questions from journalists while he was paraded along with other suspected criminals at the State Police Command Headquarters in Osogbo, Osun State yesterday, he said he has two accomplises, including his girlfriend, Alani Mutiyat.
He admitted to strangling his victims to death after gaining their trust.
“We strangle our victims to death after gaining their trust. Most times, we sleep together at night and when it is deep into the night we strangle them before daybreak and cut their body into pieces for sale.
“After selling their parts to clerics who need it, I use the proceed to enjoy myself and drink beer sometimes. I had killed my girlfriend before and one other young man brought to my place by Akeem. I don’t feel anything while killing them,” he stated.
Meanwhile, one of his accomplice, Hamzat Akeem, 25, who confessed to luring his friend, Gafari, to Monsuru’s place where he was strangled to death, said he was given N5, 000 for the role, while another accomplice, Awayewasere Yusuf, 37, claimed he bought a human head for money-making at the rate of N20,000.
Earlier, the State Police Commissioner, Olawale Olokode disclosed that its Command rescued seven persons kidnapped by unknown gunmen in two separate kidnapping operations in the State.
He disclosed that the two separate kidnapping operations took place on December 29 and 30, 2020.
According to him, in the December 30 incident, 12 passengers traveling to Offa, Kwara State enroute Osun in a Volkswagen bus, were kidnapped at Asi, along Oyan Road, in Odo-Otin local government area of the State, around 5 pm.
He said the kidnappers later released 6 victims while the remaining six were held captives while their families were contacted for ransom.
However, a combined team of Anti-kidnapping, Joints Task Force, (JTF) and other vigilante groups combed the forest areas in the town, forcing the kidnappers to release the six victims, while two kidnap suspects, Idris Quadri, 25, and Okanlawon Quadri, 28, were arrested by the team on Friday, January 1, 2021.
Similarly, one Mariam Musa was paraded for poisoning her co-wife’s 3-year-old son, Rokeeb on Saturday, December 26, 2020.
Mariam, who was pregnant and the first wife said her husband, Musa showered more love on the second wife and her son than he did to her because she had no male child.
According to her, we use to eat from the same plate, but now he has been treating me with disdain because I didn’t have a male child; that is why I poisoned the child because I became very jealous, but I didn’t mean to kill him.
However, the Police said the child was taken to Muslim Hospital, Ede where he later died on Thursday, December 31, 2020.
Osun: ‘We use human parts’ proceeds to drink beer, have fun’ – Suspect
