Man caught with human head after killing child over failed money ritual

After killing his daughter for an unsuccessful money-making ritual, Ogun State Police arrested Karezu on Monday with a rotting human head.

Karezu, 32, from the Republic of Benin, was arrested alongside Anagonou Kamelan, 44, on November 3.

It was learned that their arrest followed information received by men from the Modus Operandi section of the CIID state.
Police unit were told the men would visit an herbalist with the human head they planned to use for the money ritual

After killing his daughter for an unsuccessful money-making ritual, Ogun State Police arrested Karezu on Monday with a rotting human head.

Karezu, 32, from the Republic of Benin, was arrested alongside Anagonou Kamelan, 44, on November 3.

It was reported that their arrest followed information received by men from the Modus Operandi section of the state ICID.
The police unit had been informed that the men would visit an herbalist with the human head they planned to use for a money-making ritual.

After killing his daughter for an unsuccessful money-making ritual, Ogun State Police arrested Karezu on Monday with a rotting human head.

Karezu, 32, from the Republic of Benin, was arrested alongside Anagonou Kamelan, 44, on November 3.

It was reported that their arrest followed information received by men from the Modus Operandi section of the state ICID.
The police unit had been informed that the men would visit an herbalist with the human head they planned to use for a money-making ritual.

Armed with this information, the team led by the DSP Nurudeen Gafar reportedly mobilized their men to the herbalist’s house, where the suspects were arrested after two hours of ambushing them.

On Monday, Karezu lied to the police saying he got the head from a place known as Ijale papa; “but the investigation revealed that the human head with him was that of a woman who died three months ago during childbirth,” Ogun police spokesman Abimbola Oyeyemi said on Sunday, adding that the body had been buried near the suspect’s house.

Oyeyemi said: “It was further discovered that the suspect once killed his nine-month-old daughter and used her head for the same purpose, but was unsuccessful.

“He had also exhumed another corpse, removed the head and used it for a money-making ritual, but he failed.”
Karezu’s accomplice, Kamalen, a Togolese, told him that “he knew an herbalist who can do an” original ritual to make money “with a human head.
This, Oyeyemi said, informed the exhumation of the corpse, whose head he chopped off to the herbalist’s house.

State Police Commissioner Lanre Bankole had ordered a full investigation into the suspects’ past activities.