The Ogun State Police Command’s personnel have detained five alleged human parts dealers.
Oshole Fayemi, 60, Osemi Adesanya, 39, Ismaila Seidu, 30, Oseni Oluwasegun, 69, and Lawal Olaiya, 50, were detained as they prepared to carry out their operation at their hideouts.
This information was released in a statement on Sunday by SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, the State Police Public Relations Officer.
According to Oyeyemi, the accused are ritualists who have been exhuming victims from graves and removing body parts for ritual use.
He claimed that the gang members were detained on Saturday as a result of intelligence that the Police at Odogbolu divisional headquarters had received about the group’s plans to conduct more human parts harvesting.
According to him, the suspects were in charge of several corpse exhumations in the state’s Odogbolu Local Government Area’s Ososa community.
He added, “upon the information, the DPO Odogbolu division, CSP Godwin Idehai, mobilised his men and stormed the suspects’ hideout where five of them were apprehended.
“On interrogation, the suspects made confessional statements that they were actually into the business of exhuming corpses from their graves and that they used to sell parts of such corpses to their standby buyers who need it for money-making rituals.”
Oyeyemi, however, stated that the suspects should be handed to State Criminal Investigation Departments for a covert investigation and potential prosecution. This was ordered by Police Commissioner Frank Mba.
