Man in handcuffs
By Pathfinder Reporter
Thursday September 19, 2024
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The Nigerian Police Force, Osun State Command on Wednesday said it has apprehended seven suspects for selling human parts and water used to bathe corpses in the state.
A statement signed by the acting Police Public Relations Officer for Osun State Command, Mr. Emmanuel Giwa-Alade, said the suspects arrested included two mortuary attendants -Johnson Daniel, aged 43, and Adetunji Okunade, aged, 42 years.
Giwa-Alade, who listed others arrested for the crime as, Olaniyan Azeez, Balogun Temitope, Oladapo Hammed, Kazeem Rasaq, and Asaka Rauf, said the suspects were arrested upon credible information from a good-spirited individual that, Daniel, a mortuary attendant at lpetu-ljesa was selling remains of corpses deposited at the mortuary where he worked to native doctors.
“The said suspects use these remains 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 the remnant of water used in bathing corpses to interested native doctors.
“In the course of an investigation, a search was conducted at the residences of these suspects which led to the recovery of fragments of substances suspected to be a human skull at Asaka Rauf ‘m’ and Oladapo Hammed ‘m’’s residences, while a female pant and a notebook containing instructions on ritual practices were recovered from Balogun Temitope Asimiyu’s residence,” Giwa-Alade said.
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