Update: We sold Malik Kareem’s head and legs to a woman at Ibadan market for N70,000 – Suspected ritual k!ller confesses

Suspected serial ritual k!ller, Muhammad Adekunle, revealed that he conspired with others to k!ll and sell the human parts of Malik Kareem to a female trader at the popular Oje Market in Ibadan, for N70,000.

 

14-year-old Malik was k!lled and beheaded for ritual in Ibadan on August 7, 2024.

 

Adekunle, the trader and other suspects were paraded by the Commissioner of Police, CP Ayodele Sonubi, at the Oyo State Police Command in Eleyele Ibadan, on Friday, August 16, 2024.

 

Sonubi described the suspects as serial killers and revealed that in January 2024, Adekunle, in collaboration with Lukman, Olobe, and Ifa (all now at large), lured one Adekola Sodiq to Moniya, where they severed his head and legs and sold them to Obaleye Sanmi and Ismail Olalekan.

 

Sodiq was gruesomely m*rdered at Olorisaoko Village in Akinyele Local Government Area last week.

 

Sonubi also stated that on August 7, 2024, Adekunle and his accomplices, now at large, st@bbed Malik Kareem to d@ath and sold his head and legs to Rashidat Akanji at Oje Market for N70,000.

 

Reports gathered that on August 11, 2024, at around 6:30 a.m., a search warrant was executed at the suspects’ homes, where fresh flesh was recovered. Adekunle confessed that the flesh was Malik Kareem, whom they k!lled on August 7, 2024.

 

 

During the investigation, suspects Muniru Salawudeen, Rashidat Akanji, Ismail Olalekan, and Obaleye Sanmi were arrested. They confessed to purchasing various human parts from Adekunle Mohammed for money rituals

 

On August 10, 2024, at about 12:15 a.m, one Ayede reported that a foul odor was emanating from a building owned by Muhammad Adekunle, who was not residing there but visited at odd hours

 

Police from Moniya Divisional Headquarters investigated and found a dry well in the compound containing what appeared to be mutilated human bodies.

 

The remains of three unidentified bodies were removed and taken to the State Hospital Morgue for preservation and autopsy. Photographs were also taken.