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Ritual killings are rife across many states in Nigeria from Kano, Edo, Zamfara, Imo, Enugu, Osun, Oyo, Nasarawa, Niger, Rivers, Abia to Ogun among others. But available statistics showed that the cases are more in Ogun State.

It’s disturbing that with the reported cases, the state is gradually becoming the headquarters of ritual killings in the country.

A 36-year-old herbalist, Taiwo Ajalorun, reportedly confessed to the gruesome killing of a 26-year-old mother of two and two others in the Ijebu Ode area of the state. Ajalorun and his accomplice, Lukman Oladele, were said to have strangled the woman shortly after sex and thereafter sold her body parts including heart and legs.

On April 27, 2022, a mortuary attendant, Kushimo Lukman, was arrested in Abeokuta, the state capital, for cutting off the head of a dead boy. Lukman, who was arrested by men of the state-owned security outfit, So-Safe Corps, on routine patrol, said the severed head was requested by one Ifalonishe for N50,000.

Adebayo reportedly went missing on September 15, 2022, after she was kidnapped and killed four ritual purposes by the four suspects including a hotelier, Soneye Lateef. Oyeyemi disclosed that Azeez Raimi, 21, Yusuf Saheed, 33, Awodero Michael, 27 and Soneye Lateef, 39, were responsible for the act.

 

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There should be embergo and total ban on any traditional Chief priest requesting for Human being or human parts for ritual of any kind.

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