how we caught human skull trader. by police

Dayo Johnson, Akure
SHE looked innocent when she was paraded
among 44 suspected criminals said to have
been terrorizing the people of Ondo State.
Adenike Adeniyi, a 42-year-old mother of four,
was arrested and paraded for allegedly
receiving stolen properties in Ondo town.
Meanwhile, in an interview with Sunday
Vanguard after she was paraded, Adenike
denied she was a receiver of stolen goods.
Adenike said she was arrested for an offence
she never committed.
In a related development, the police in Ondo
State narrated how two suspects allegedly
trading in human skulls were arrested.
Two other suspects, Ilesanmi Adeyemi, 29,
and Muideen Alabi, 30, insisted Adenike was a
receiver of stolen goods.
The crackdown on criminals has been the
determination of the Isaac Eke-led Ondo State
Police Command.
The crackdown also led to the arrest of two
alleged ritualists with a human skull along
Ibillo/ Isua expressway in Akoko South East
council area of Ondo State.
Only last week, the senator representing Ondo
South, Boluwaji Kunlere, donated 13 police
patrol vehicles to the state command to fight
crime in his district.
Kunlere said the spate of crimes in the
southern area of the state was alarming,
prompting him to donate the police vehicles
to fight the menace.
Parading the 44 suspected criminals, the
state commissioner, Isaac Eke, said they
include 32 suspected cult members, six
suspected armed robbers, four suspected
burglars and two suspects in possession of
human heads.
Of interest was the innocent look of the
alleged receiver of stolen goods.
While the two other suspects allegedly
confessed they committed the crime and
mentioned other members of the gang, the
receiver kept shouting she knew nothing about
it.
The police commissioner alleged that the
suspects burgled the house of one Bukola
Ayodeji of Lawyer Yinka Valentino area in
Ondo town.
The victim was quoted as saying the suspects
stole foodstuff and other properties.
Following the complaint, detectives swung
into action and the suspects were arrested
and a Bajaj motorcycle marked LSR 608 QB
was allegedly recovered from them.
Sunday Vanguard gathered learnt that the
alleged receiver was picked up by the police
after the confession of the two suspects.
Eke said that the suspects will soon be
arraigned in court at the conclusion of
investigation.
He pointed out that efforts were on top gear
to arrest other alleged members of the gang.
On the suspected ritualists, the police boss
said policemen attached to Isua Divisional
Police Station in Akoko South East, while on
stop and search along Ibilo/Isua expressway,
intercepted them while on an unregistered
motorcycle.
Eke said that the two men cleverly wrapped a
human skull in a black polythene leather.
The suspects are Lukuman Sule of Ikiran, Edo
State and Alaiye Sule.
Eke said the case was still under
investigation.
They were said to be going to sell the skull
which they reportedly exhumed from a burial
ground when they were apprehended by the
police patrol team.
Speaking on the 32 suspected cult members,
the police commissioner said they were
arrested in Akure, Ondo and Owo and have
been responsible for terrorizing, stealing and
rapping in the towns.
He pointed out that other members of the
cult, including their armourer known as
Lukman, were still at large.