The Osun State Police Command on Wednesday disclosed that it arrested seven suspects for selling human parts and water used to bathe corpses in the state.
The Acting Police Public Relations Officer for Osun Command, Emmanuel Giwa-Alade, announced he arrests in a statement, adding that those arrested included two mortuary attendants: Johnson Daniel, aged 43, and Adetunji Okunade, aged 42.
Giwa-Alade, who listed the other suspects as Olaniyan Azeez, Balogun Temitope, Oladapo Hammed, Kazeem Rasaq, and Asaka Rauf, said the arrests were made following credible information from a concerned individual that Daniel, a mortuary attendant at Ipetu-Ijesa, was selling remains of corpses deposited at the mortuary where he worked to native doctors.
“The suspects used these remains obtained from the mortuary attendant (Johnson Daniel) for various ritual purposes. Daniel also confessed that he conspired with another mortuary attendant, Adetunji Okunade, to sell remnants of water used to bathe corpses to interested native doctors.
“During the investigation, a search was conducted at the residences of these suspects, leading to the recovery of fragments of substances suspected to be human skulls at the homes of Asaka Rauf and Oladapo Hammed, while a female pant and a notebook containing instructions on ritual practices were recovered from Balogun Temitope Asimiyu’s residence,” the statement read.
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