Photo: Police arrest.
The police command in Ondo State has arrested two school teachers identified as Blessing Omowera and Sola Kalejaiye for allegedly cutting the finger nails of two pupils, both three-year-old, and extracting their blood for rituals
While Omowera works at the Heritage Nursery and Primary School, Ondo town, Kalajaye, is said to be a teacher in a secondary school in the town.
The command’s Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Femi Joseph, disclosed in a statement that Omowera called out the two pupils and cut their fingernails under the pretence of cleaning them up.
The PPRO also said as the suspect was cutting the finger nails of the pupils, she intentionally cut the hands of the victims to bring out blood.
She then cleaned the bloodstained hand with a cloth and collected the fingernails and blood of the pupils for ritual purposes.
He said that when one of the pupils got home, she informed her father about what the teacher did to her in school, and the parents reported the matter at the Ondo Area Command, Ondo.
Joseph said, “We were informed that after the suspect (Omowera) had cut the hands of the pupils, she cleaned up the blood with a cloth and took both the blood and fingernails away.
“After she was arrested, she confessed that she was sent by somebody who wanted to use the blood and fingernails for ritual purposes; that was why we arrested the sender (Kalejaye).”
The police spokesman said that Omowera had already been charged to court, while Kalejaye was still in custody undergoing interrogation.
“He (Kalejaye) too will soon be charged to court,” Joseph said.
The father of one of the pupils, Mr. Ambrose Akinnodi, called on the state government and human rights activists in the country to assist his family in ensuring that justice was done in the matter.
Periscope International reports that the parents of the two pupils have already withdrawn their children from the school.
