Police operatives attached to the Anti-kidnapping unit of the police in Lagos state has arrested two brothers with a fresh human head.
Vanguard reports that the brothers were arrested on Friday at about 8.30 am by the police team while on a routine patrol between Ajah/Epe expressway in possession of the fresh human head which they concealed in a sack.
The two brothers, Ayodeji Obadimeji, aged 18, and Saheed Obadimeji, 19 who reside at Tunde Balogun Street, Shapati, Ibeju-Lekki confessed that one native doctor simply identified as Sodiq Abefe had contracted them to provide him with a human head at the cost of two hundred thousand Naira (N200, 000).
The suspect triggered with the large sum of money which they planned to spend together, lured the victim by sending him to buy a bottle of Coca-Cola drink for them and when he brought the drinks to them, they held him and cut off his head with a knife.
The victim has been identified by his parents as Joseph Makinde, male, aged 10 years.
The remaining part of the body has been recovered from an uncompleted building located at Shapati and effort is being made to arrest the native doctor who allegedly contracted the duo to commit the heinous crime.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police has directed that the case be handed over to the Homicide division of the State Criminal Investigation And Intelligence Department (SCIID) for further investigation.
