Juliana Francis
Mr. Samuel Olaniyi (65), who was
arrested for exhuming and beheading his late brother, has told the police that
he did it after a native doctor convinced him and his friends that the skull
would vomit money, making them rich beyond imagination.
Olaniyi and his cronies were
arrested by operatives of the Inspector-General of Police Special Intelligence
Response Team (IRT), Lagos State arm, for attempting to use his late brother’s
skull for money ritual.
Olaniyi was arrested along with Uchenna
Olewunna and Sunday Mathew after they exhumed late Idowu Jimoh’s skeletal at Ato
area of Ogun State.
Olaniyi, a palm wine tapper, alleged
that it was his friend, Mathew, desperate to be rich that got him involved in
the money ritual scheme. According to Olaniyi, Mathew, a logger, first approached
Olewunna, a native doctor, who treats people, but has no idea of how to carry
out money making ritual rites.
Olewunna linked Mathew to another of
his colleagues in Sango area of Ogun State, called Baba Cele. The man asked for
a human skull in order to complete the ritual. Baba Cele insisted that the
skull must be that of someone close to one of the wealth seekers.
Olaniyi: “It was my friend Mathew that got
me involved into this mess. When we met Baba Cele, he told us that we needed a
human head. The head must be that of a person we were familiar with. That was
the reason we opened the grave and took the skull. I was hoping to become very
rich. Baba Cele told us that money would be coming out of the skull regularly.
He also said that he would take a share of the money, while we keep the rest.
Matthew promised that when he
succeeds, I would take a large chunk of the money. I took Mathew and
Olewunna to my late brother’s grave, exhumed his corpse and removed its head.”
Mathew (52), who is a farmer and a
logger, married with three children, said: “This is the first time I would be
getting involved in human part business. I have a native doctor friend, Uchenna
Olewunna, who I used to patronize. I even used to refer sick people to him for
treatment. There was a time I told him that I had no job and wanted him to help
in preparing a money making ritual for me, he asked me to get a human head,
that he knew a native doctor would help in making me rich.”
He further said: “When I got home, I
told my friend Samuel. He asked me if I had confirmed from the person that
would perform the charm, I said no. We went to Uchenna and he took us to the
main native doctor. The native doctor confirmed that he could do it and had
been doing such for long. The native doctor even told us that there was a time
someone was arrested by police for being in possession of human parts, that he
went to the police and retrieved the parts. Some days later after we got this
confirmation, Samuel called to inform me that he has found a place where we
could get a head. I informed Uchenna and three of us went to the gravesite on a
motorcycle.”
Mathew said that on the fateful day
they went to the gravesite to exhume the corpse of Idowu, he acted as the lookout,
while Uchenna dug open the grave and Samuel held the torch.
Mathew recounted: “After we took skull,
we gave it to Samuel, who is a security guard to keep in an uncompleted
building. We went to inform the native doctor, who asked us to go and
bring N48, 000. We got N16, 000, which we gave to Uchenna. He promised to add
N10, 000 to make the amount N26, 000. Uchenna informed us that the native
doctor asked us to come with the skull and a charcoal. On our way, we were
arrested by the police.”
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