The Osun State Police Command has arrested seven suspects for selling human body parts and water used to bathe corpses in the state.
The disclosure was made on Wednesday by the Acting Police Public Relations Officer for Osun State Police Command, Emmanuel Giwa-Alade.
According to him, the suspects included two mortuary attendants – Johnson Daniel, aged 43, and Adetunji Okunade, aged 42 years. Others apprehended for the crime are Olaniyan Azeez, Balogun Temitope, Oladapo Hammed, Kazeem Rasaq, and Asaka Rauf.
It was revealed 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’ residences, while a female pant and a notebook containing instructions on ritual practices were recovered from Balogun Temitope Asimiyu’s residence.”
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