The arrested suspects
The police command in Osun has arrested seven suspected ritualists including a mortuary attendant selling human body parts and corpse water.
Acting Police Public Relations Officer of the Command, Emmanuel Giwa-Alade, announced this while parading the suspects at the command’s headquarters in Osogbo.
He identified the suspects as Johnson Daniel, Adetunji Okunade, Olaniyan Azeez, Balogun Temitope Asimiyu, Oladapo Hammed, Kazeem Rasak, and Asaka Rauf, were paraded before journalists.
He said that their arrest was sequel to credible information that Daniel, a mortuary attendant at Ipetu-Ijesa, was selling the remains of corpses deposited at the mortuary, where he works, 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 the 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.
“A female pant and a notebook containing instructions on ritual practices were recovered from Balogun Temitope Asimiyu’s residence,” Giwa-Alade said.
