The police have given insight into how 18 – year old undergraduate student at the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) Ile – Ife, who was initially deemed missing, was murdered, and his head, two wrists harvested and sold for N100k to body parts dealers.
The student identified as Quadri Salami was last seen on November 8, 2023 by his family and after searching without clues to his whereabout, his father reported the matter at the Kemta Divisional Police Headquarters Abeokuta, Ogun State on November 14.
However, after weeks of painstaking investigation, detectives eventually unravelled the mysterious disappearance of the student and on Wednesday December 6, they located a shallow grave where the boy’s remains were interred.
The decomposing remains were subsequently exhumed by the police.
The arrest of one Akeem Usman, who was in possession of the victim’s phone, led to the discovery. Usman implicated another suspect – Ifadowo Niyi, which revealed that both of them committed the heinous crime by slaughtering Quadri.
The Command which made this known in a release on Wednesday night through SP Omolola Odutola, its Police Public Relations Officer.
It states, “The Ogun State Police Command has unraveled the disappearance of one Quadri Salami “m” 18 year old a 100 level student of Obafemi Awolowo University, whose father reported at Kemta Police station on the 14th of November 2023, as a case of a missing person, that since the 8th of November he had not set his eyes on his son and all efforts to locate him proved abortive.
The Commissioner of Police CP Alamutu Abiodun Mustapha, made a significant breakthrough today the 6th of December 2023 when he personally led a team of Tactical Squad to Mile 6 in Ajebo area of Abeokuta to a shallow grave to exhume the decomposing body parts of the deceased after a tracking clue beamed at one Akeem Usman “m” who was arrested in possession with the victims phone. He implicated one Ifadowo Niyi “m” that both of them committed the heinous crime by slaughtering the victim one Quadri and dismembered his vital parts for ritual purposes.
Ifadowo went away with Quadri’s head, and his two wrists, and paid the sum of one hundred thousand Naira into Akeem Usman’s account as proceeds from the sale of the human body parts.
The suspects thereafter continued to sell the victim’s other body parts on demand to Internet fraudsters and buried the heart, two legs, and flesh inside a plastic rubber for rituals and used the remaining parts for “Awure” a crime against humanity.
Among their confessional statement, the duo admitted that they have used four other human heads for money rituals known as “Osole”
The suspects are now in Eleweran at SCID for continuation of discreet investigations and will definitely be prosecuted.
The CP remain committed to ensuring that justice is served and will continue to investigate further to bring all perpetrators to face the full extent of the Law. Stating that such criminal involvement endangers innocent lives urging parents to collectively work together with the police in Ogun by giving volunteer information to eradicate such nefarious practices.”
The Nation
