Man Escapes Mobbing for Buying Human Hair from Barbing Salon

60-year-old man, Adewale Okunade, a landlord of a house on Segun Olatunji Street, Ijoko, Ota, Ogun State, narrowly escaped being lynched on Thursday when some people in the neighbourhood pounced on him.

They alleged that he was buying human hair from babers salon and would take them to a herbalist in Cotonou, Republic of Benin, who uses it to prepare charms for him.

It was gathered that the man had been in the business for some years but nemesis caught up with him on the fateful day when his ‘business partner’, a bricklayer, gave him away.

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An executive member of the Community Development Association said Okunade allegedly confessed that he had been buying human hair.

He said the suspect denied the hair was meant for rituals, saying he used to take the hair to an herbalist to prepare concoctions to cure himself of festering sores on his leg.

He said many traditional medicine practitioners who were there when Okunade was apprehended, said human hair could only be used for rituals not for curing sores.

Not being satisfied with his explanation, decided to hand him over to the police at Sango Police Station.”

Another resident, who craved anonymity, said, “We have yet to come to terms with his pedestrian explanation. We learnt that he pays between N200,000 and N300,000 for each consignment of hair. You can see that his explanation lacks the essential elements of truth. I am also amazed that human hair has become a cure for sores.”

The spokesman for Ogun State Police Command, Mr. Muyiwa Adejobi, said the story was twisted by the community.

He said the suspect had only solicited for hair because of his festering sores.

Adejobi said, “The story was not like that. The man (Okunade) has a sore and he said he needed human hair to cure the sore. He had not gotten the hair; he only solicited. The community just raised the alarm which resulted in the man’s car being vandalised.

“He reported to the police that his car was being vandalised and that they wanted to kill him. That was how the police mediated to avoid the man being lynched.”