Police Arrest Siblings Found with Human Head in Ekiti

The Ekiti State Police Command has arrested two brothers of the same parents for allegedly being in possession of a fresh human head.

The two suspected ritualists are being detained at the police headquarters in Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital.

Speaking with journalists in Ado Ekiti yesterday, the command’s Public Relations Officer, Mr. Adeyemi Alberto, gave the names of the suspects as David Oluwatosin and Tosin Oluwatosin.

Alberto, however, pointed out that David, who was deemed as the elder, ispresently at large.

This came barely three weeks two persons were beheaded at different times with one in Orisunmibare in Itaji Ekiti , where the town has been having a running battle with Ayede Ekiti over land tussle.

Also, a 26-year old herdsman, who hailed from Kara State, Dele Ahmed, was decapitated in Omu Ekiti in Oye local government area of Ekiti State.

Alberto, who confirmed the gory and nefarious crime , said Tosin was arrested with the fresh head in Ifaki Ekiti, in Ido-Osi Local Government of the state around 3.35p.m. on February 14, following an intelligence report from unnamed source.

The PPRO, who decried incessant beheading in the state, said the police would also investigate if the two brothers had hand in the first two beheading.

Meanwhile, following suspicion that the Ayede/ Itaji land dispute had stoked the recurrent beheading of people being witnessed in Ekiti, the state government has constituted an eight-man investigative fact-finding committee to intervene in the crisis.

The committee, according to Governor Ayodele Fayose, is mandated to look into the boundary between the two towns and interact with all stakeholders for expeditious resolution of the blood crisis.

The committee is to be chaired by former Chief Judge of Ekiti State and Oluyin of Iyin Ekiti, Oba Ademola Ajakaiye.