Ganiyu Shina, 49, of Oguji Street, Obantoko, Abeokuta, was detained by Ogun State Police Command officers for swimming in blood at a communal river in the Kotopo neighbourhood of Odeda Local Government. He said a herbalist had given him the order.
When locals saw the guy at the River bank, where he had parked his Nissan commercial vehicle and emerged with a local sponge and a container filled with blood and beginning to bathe with it, they called the authorities.
He rushed off running as soon as he realised someone was watching him, but community members pursued him and caught up with him.
A call was made to the police at Aregbe divisional headquarters by a member of the community, and the DPO, SP Bunmi Asogbon quickly led the patrol team to the scene, from where the suspect was brought to the station.
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On interrogation, the suspect claimed to have a spiritual problem, and that a herbalist instructed him to perform the ritual.
He claimed further that the blood in his possession was not human, but that of a cow.
Meanwhile, the State Commissioner of Police, Lanre Bankole, has directed that the remaining blood should be taken for laboratory analysis, to ascertain whether it’s human blood or not.
The CP also praised members of the community for not taking laws into their hands, he, therefore, assured them that the suspect will be properly investigated.
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