Bakare Olalekan, 35-year-old, is assisting the Ogun State Police Command, with information regarding the whereabouts of his accomplice in the human part business,
Olalekan who was paraded alongside other suspects on Thursday, confessed that he bought three human hearts for N10,000, from his friend, after he requested for a good luck charm for prosperity.
According to him, his friend simply identified as Oye told him that he would need a human heart, which is a major ingredient in the preparation of the charm.
He said oye had sold the hearts to him and even used one of them to prepare the charm, while he sold the remaining two hearts to a suspect, who is also in police custody.
The Police Commissioner, Ahmed Illiyasu, confirming the crimes, disclosed that Olalekan was part of a four-man syndicate that was arrested for killing a 16-year-old girl, Olayinka Adebayo, last year August.
A fake naval officer, Abdullahi Hammed, a fake police officer, David Olasubomi, and a fake prophet, Kehinde Onanung, were among the 55 other suspects that were paraded by the Ogun State Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Illiyasu, at the State Police Command Headquarters, Eleweran, in Abeokuta .
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