by Zara Mustapha

The severed head of a 2-year-old boy has been recovered by the Ogun State Police Command on Thursday at Ofada, Mowe, in Obafemi Owode Local Government Area of the state.

According to reports, the police had earlier made an arrest, a Nigerien, Mamodu Ibrahim, who had allegedly raped the toddler’s mother and beheaded the baby. While in detention he had reportedly confessed that he sold the severed head to a woman in Ibadan, in neighbouring Oyo State.

In a statement made available to journalists in Abeokuta on Thursday, the Ogun State Police Command Public Relations Officer, Muyiwa Adejobi said the suspect took police investigators to Mokola area of Ibadan where the head was recovered in a bag in the bush on Tuesday, April 22.

“He has confessed to the crime but still keeping some information to himself as to those who sent him to get the head,” Mr. Adejobi said.

“The commissioner of Police Ogun State CP Ikemefuna Okoye has however directed the detectives to intensify efforts to uncover the buyers and those who engaged in such dirty deals in our society.”