I connived with Alfa to use my apprentice for money ritual, says herbalist

A suspected ritualist, Ganiyu Idowu, 62, has confessed he connived with one Alfa Bamigbola Edun, to use his apprentice for money rituals. The Ogun State police command yesterday paraded Idowu, Edun and another accomplice, Matthew Odunewu, at the state police headquarters, Eleweran, Abeokuta, for allegedly kidnapping Ganiyu Akanni for money rituals. Idowu, an herbalist, told […]

A suspected ritualist, Ganiyu Idowu, 62, has confessed he connived with one Alfa Bamigbola Edun, to use his apprentice for money rituals.
The Ogun State police command yesterday paraded Idowu, Edun and another accomplice, Matthew Odunewu, at the state police headquarters, Eleweran, Abeokuta, for allegedly kidnapping Ganiyu Akanni for money rituals.
Idowu, an herbalist, told journalists at the parade that Edun asked him to provide one person for a ritual that would yield N11 million.
But Edun denied the accusation, saying he only engaged the herbalist in a mutual exchange of knowledge in their trado-medical business. “I don’t know anything about what he is saying,” he declared.
The Ogun State Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Iliyasu, said the suspects were arrested at the Ogun River bank in the act of preparing to slaughter the victim for a ritual.
“On interrogation, they confessed that the polythene bags found with them were to be used to collect their respective shares of the victim’s body parts after killing him,” Iliyasu said.