The police in Osun State have arrested seven suspects for allegedly selling human body parts and water used to bathe corpses.
The acting Police Public Relations Officer for Osun State Police Command, Mr. Emmanuel Giwa-Alade, said the arrested suspects include two mortuary attendants namely Johnson Daniel, 43, and Adetunji Okunade, 42 years.
Others, according to Giwa-Alade are, Olaniyan Azeez, Balogun Temitope, Oladapo Hammed, Kazeem Rasaq, and Asaka Rauf.
He said they were arrested following credible information from a good-spirited individual.
The police image maker said that Daniel, a mortuary attendant at lpetu-ljesa, was harvesting body parts of corpses deposited at the morgue, which he allegedly sold 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 kept by 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,” Giwa-Alade said.