Loved ones have released photos of the 14-year-old boy who was beheaded for rituals in Ibadan, Oyo State.
Malik Kareem was reportedly k!lled for rituals on Saturday evening, August 10.
The incident occurred at the Olorisaoko community in the Akinyele Local Government Area of the state
The victim recently wrote his final subject for the West Africa Examination Council at Iyana Community Grammar School, Olode, Moniya, Ibadan
Sources allege that the victim, alongside three of his friends, contacted a Muslim cleric, now at large, for a money ritual on that day.
Unknown to the victim, the three other boys had bargained with the cleric to kill him for a money ritual.
News of Kareem’s m*rder reached his family that evening at their home and they rushed to the cleric’s house where they confirmed the headless body was their son.
The Muslim cleric had fled at the time.
The bereaved family said they learnt that Kareem was stranguled to death, beheaded and his head, which was missing from his body, had been cremated.
The cleric had burnt the head so the other boys would use the ashes to drink pap daily.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, Adewale Osifeso, said investigations had already commenced on the incident.
Loved ones have taken to social media to mourn the deceased.
