A 49-year-old man, Ganiyu Shina has been arrested by operatives of the Ogun State Police Command for bathing with blood at a community river in the Kotopo area of Odeda local government of the State on Thursday, December 15.
Shina who lives at No 4, Oguji street, Obantoko Abeokuta, was arrested when members of the community sighted him at the River Bank.
They revealed that the suspect parked his Nissan commercial vehicle, came out with a local sponge and a container filled with blood and started bathing with it.
But immediately he discovered that some people were watching him, he took to his heels but was chased and apprehended by members of the community.
A call was made to the police at Aregbe divisional headquarters by a member of the community, and the DPO, SP Bunmi Asogbon quickly led the patrol team to the scene, from where the suspect was brought to the station.
On interrogation, the suspect claimed to have a spiritual problem, and that a herbalist instructed him to perform the ritual. He claimed further the blood in his possession is not human blood, but that of a cow.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police has directed the remaining blood to be taken to the laboratory for analysis, to ascertain whether it’s human blood or not.
