By OPERATIVES of Osun State Police Command have arrested two mortuary attendants and five other suspects for allegedly selling human parts in the state.
The acting spokesman for the Osun State Police Command, Emmanuel Giwa-Alade, announced the arrests last Wednesday.
The five suspects were also nabbed for selling water used for washing corpses.
The mortuary attendants were identified as Johnson Daniel, 43, and Adetunji Okunade, 42, while the other suspects included Olaniyan Azeez, Balogun Temitope, Oladapo Hammed, Kazeem Rasaq, and Asaka Rauf.
The suspects
According to Giwa-Alade, fragments of substances suspected to be a human skull, a female pant and a notebook containing instructions on ritual practices were recovered from Balogun Temitope’s residence.
Giwa-Alade also stated that the suspects were arrested following credible information from a concerned citizen that Daniel, a mortuary attendant at Ipetu-Ijesa, was selling corpses from the mortuary to local practitioners of native medicine.
“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.
“The remains obtained from the mortuary attendant were used for various ritual purposes,” Giwa-Alade stated.
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