The Oyo State Police Command has arrested an Islamic cleric, identified as Alfa Bashiru, for being in possession of a substance suspected to be human flesh.
The Command’s Public Relations Officer, CSP Adewale Osifeso, confirmed this on Thursday in a post on the verified X handle of the Command.
He said that the Federal Highway Patrol team intercepted a white bus with registration number XA 551 IRG, which the suspect allegedly boarded, at the Toll Gate axis of the Ibadan Expressway at 11:30 a.m., on Wednesday.
Oyefeso said that the suspect, when quizzed, claimed to have bought the suspected human flesh in Lagos.
The suspect, he said, had been transferred to the Homicide Section of the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), Iyaganku, for further investigation.
The suspected item is undergoing forensic analysis to determine its authenticity and source,” Osifeso said.
In a separate development, operatives of the command during a Search and Stop Operation recovered an abandoned Toyota Camry car with Registration number LSD 957 JX.
Osifeso said that police operatives flagged down the Toyota Camry car during a routine search, and the driver of the car jumped down and took to his heels, abandoning the vehicle.
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