I took a shower with human cranium to spice up my enterprise -Suspect

Franklin Akinyosuyi, 26, who was detained in Ondo town, Ondo State, with a human skull in his flat, has admitted that he used the skull to bathe for a month.

The photographer and shop owner claimed that a herbalist advised him to take a bath with a skull every Thursday at one in the morning in order to grow his business.

As he and his accomplices were being paraded Saturday at the state police headquarters in Akure, Akinyosuyi gave a press conference.

The suspect was detained after his landlord brought up the presence of a human skull in the suspect’s Eleworo neighbourhood flat last week at a police station.

The suspect admitted, “I am a photographer and I also operate a store. My uncle took me to a herbalist the previous year. I told him that my company wasn’t doing well, and he requested N200,000 to create a mixture for me. I paid him in full within three weeks.

“After he finished, he called me to come pick it up, and that was in November of last year. He gave me the order to take a bath with a human skull every Thursday at precisely one in the morning. After using it for a month, I noticed no change in my business. I had to phone the herbalist to request a money-back refund.

I requested that he pick up the human skull as well, but he declined. Despite this, he began refunding my money because he had already handed me N20,000.

“On that fateful day, I made the decision to go dispose of it, so I left it in my backyard. Unfortunately, I left, and before I could come back, the children of my landlord witnessed it, told their father, and they called the police. The herbalist stated that he bribed someone to obtain the human head after we were taken into custody.

Five people are allegedly implicated in the case, according to the state police public relations officer, Mrs. Funmilayo Odunlami.

She claimed that although three individuals had been taken into custody, two remained at large.

“Further questioning and investigation resulted in the arrest of one Oyegoke Dare, an evangelist, who had given the suspect the skull and other fetish items. One Oyelade Sarafa, a herbalist, was also taken into custody after confessing to having assisted in obtaining the skull from one Asekun (a vigilante) in Ikirun. Two further individuals who have been linked to the case but remain at large, she added.