A shocking revelation has emerged from a police investigation in Kwara, where a 29-year-old cleric, Abdulrahman Muhammed Bello, and four others have been arraigned for killing a final-year student, Hafsat Lawal, from the Kwara State College of Education, for ritual purposes.

According to the police FIR, the suspects are members of a syndicate that has been killing unsuspecting citizens of Kwara for rituals.

The other suspects include 41-year-old Ahmed Abulwasiu, an Islamic scholar from Adualere in Ilorin, 28-year-old Neo Life businessman – Sulaiman Muhydeen from Amilegbe in Ilorin, 29-year-old phone repairer – Jamiu Uthman from Adualere in Ilorin and 31-year-old farmer, Abdulrahman Jamiu from Elemere, Malete

The police stated that others involved in the syndicate are still at large. The FIR reads, “That you … and others at large are a syndicate that has been killing unsuspecting citizens of Kwara for ritual purposes.”

Magistrate Sanusi Muhammad, due to lack of jurisdiction, could not take the plea of the defendant and ordered that Abdulrahman be kept at Oke-Kura until March 6, 2025. The suspects have been charged with criminal conspiracy, culpable homicide, armed robbery, and being in possession of human parts.

According to the police, Abdulrahman and the four others belong to the same occult group and confessed to robbing and killing the lady for ritual purposes.