Here are the photos of the 14-year-old boy who was strangled, beheaded by his 3 friends for rituals in Ibadan (PHOTOs)

Thursday, August 15, 2024 –Loved ones have released photos of the 14-year-old boy who was beheaded for rituals in Ibadan, Oyo State.

 Malik Kareem was reportedly killed 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, Punch reports.

Unknown to the victim, the three other boys had bargained with the cleric to kill him for a money ritual.

News of Kareem's murder 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 strangled to death, beheaded and his head, which was missing from his body, had been cremated.