The Osun State Police Command has apprehended a 72-year-old man severing a human skull from a cemetery.
Identified as Idris Ajao, the man said he is a trained bricklayer but was sent by a herbalist, Tajudeen Jawesola to exhume skulls from graves in the cemetery in return for 10,000 Naira.
Ajao, however, made a profound statement, saying his act ‘na mistake’.
Police, acting on a tip off, deployed men around the cemetery and arrested him with a skull.
The Commissioner of Police in the state, Fimihan Adeoye said that detectives got the hint about the alleged atrocities of Ajao and trailed him until he was caught with the skull.
Ajao said “the downfall of a man is not the end of his life “,”hard time is not forever and “mistake has no master”, Channels Television reports.
Speaking on in the Yoruba language, he said: “What happened yesterday is so painful to me, I arrived at the cemetery by 6.30PM in Igbote and left the place by 7.30PM, as I was going, the Police apprehended me.
“It was Jawesola that asked me to get the human skull for him. Everybody knows Jawesola to be a herbalist and he wanted to use the human skull to do his work.
“He said he would give me N10, 000. I should not have listened to him. It was a mistake”.
The Police however said that they were still in search of Jawesola.