The Osun State Police Command on Wednesday announced its arrest of seven suspects for selling human parts and water used to bathe corpses in the state.
Their arrest was made public by a statement the acting Police Public Relations Officer for Osun State Police Command, Mr. Emmanuel Giwa-Alade released in which it related that the suspects included two mortuary attendants -Johnson Daniel, aged 43, and Adetunji Okunade, aged, 42 years.
Others apprehended for the crime per Giwa-Alade are: Olaniyan Azeez, Balogun Temitope, Oladapo Hammed, Kazeem Rasaq, and Asaka Rauf.
It was said that 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 narrated.
