Wednesday, September 18, 2024 -The Osun State Police Command has revealed that it has arrested seven suspects for possession of human body parts.
The police made this revelation to
journalists while parading the suspects at the Command headquarters in Osogbo
on Wednesday.
The suspects paraded include Johnson Daniel,
Adetunji Okunade, Olaniyan Azeez, Balogun Temitope Asimiyu, Oladapo Hammed,
Kazeem Rasak and Asaka Rauf.
Addressing journalists, the Deputy Police
Public Relations Officer, Giwa-Alade Emmanuel also said suspected human bone
fragments, a female pant and note books were recovered as exhibits from the
suspects at the point of arrest.
He said, “The above named suspects were
arrested upon a credible information from a good spirited individual that, one
Johnson Daniel ‘m’ a mortuary attendant at lpetu-ljesa sells portions of human
remains deposited at the mortuary to native doctors whose names are listed
above.
“The said suspects use these remains gotten
from the mortuary attendant (Johnson Daniel) for different ritual purposes.
Daniel also confessed that, he conspired with one other mortuary attendant
named Adetunji Okunade ‘m’ to sell remnant of water used in bathing corpses to
interested native doctors.
“In the course of investigation, search were
conducted at the residences of these suspects which led to the recovery of
fragment of substances suspected to be human skull at Asaka Rauf ‘m’ and
Oladapo Hammed ‘m’ residences while a female pant and a note book containing
instructions on ritual practices were recovered from Balogun Temitope Asimiyu’s
residence.”
Giwa-Alade hinted that the suspects have
been charged to court.
Similarly, the police paraded Taiwo
Adekunle, Adebayo Opeyemi, Hasan Ibrahim, Oba Wasiu and Olajide Oladapo for
alleged armed robbery.
Exhibits recovered at the point of arrest
include a Ford Jeep with registration number SMK945OS, Hunter motorcycle with
registration number WWD604QF, one empty shell cartridge, one Iphone and one
magnet.
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