SP Okasanmi Ajayi; the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, disclosed this in a press statement on Sunday.

According to the statement, the suspects were arrested by a team of policemen on patrol at Oke Oyi/Jebba road on Sunday, 24 April 2022 at about 11:30 am while trying to evade the officers on stop and search duty,

They were chased before they were arrested.

In the course of searching, the suspects, identified as Wasiu Omonose, 35, of Abioye compound, Share, and Akanbi Ibrahim, 32, of Sayo street, were caught with a bag containing a fresh human head and hands.

While being quizzed by the police, the suspects confessed that they were taking the fresh human head and hands to an Alfa in Ilorin for ritual purposes.

The Kwara State Commissioner of Police, CP Tuesday Assayono, in the statement, assured that the suspected ritualists will be prosecuted as soon as investigation into the matter is concluded.