Information gathered indicates that the brothers were arrested on Tuesday at about 8.30 pm by the police team while on a routine patrol between Ajah/Epe expressway in possession of the fresh human head which they concealed in a sack.

It was gathered that the two brothers, Ayodeji Obadimeji, aged 18,and Saheed Obadimeji,19 who resides at Tunde Balogun Street, Shapati, Ibeju-Lekki have confessed that one native doctor simply identified as Sodiq Abefe had contracted them to provide him with human head at the cost of two hundred thousand Naira (N200, 000).

The suspect triggered with the large sum which they had planned to spend during christmas lured the victim by sending him to buy a bottle of Coca-Cola drink for them and when he brought the drinks to them, they held him and cut of his head with a knife.

The victim has been identified by his parents as Joseph Makinde, male, aged 10 years.

Otti said the remaining part of the body has been recovered from an uncompleted building located at Shapati and effort is being made to arrest the native doctor Sodiq Abefe who allegedly contracted the duo to commit the heinous crime

Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police has directed that the case be handed over to the Homicide section of the State Criminal Investigation And Intelligence Department (SCIID) Panti Yaba for further investigation.

The CP Lagos reiterated his earlier warnings to criminals to repent or relocate from the state or regret the consequence of their action.