A couple, Kehinde Oladimeji (43) and his wife, Adejumoke Raji (35), have been arrested by detectives in Ogun State Police Command for being in possession of fresh human parts.
Thenewsbearer learnt that the couple, residing at 72, MKO Abiola Way, Leme Abeokuta, were arrested today, Saturday, February 12, 2022, with the human parts.
This is coming just two weeks after some teenagers were arrested for killing the girlfriend of one of them by severing her head and burning it for money ritual.
It is also noteworthy that the trend had been popular in the state, especially in recent time.
Confirming the arrest, the command’s Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, said it was made after the Baale of Leme Community, Chief Moshood Ogunwolu, reported at Kemta Divisional Headquarters that one Pastor Adisa Olarewaju, a co-tenant with the suspects, informed him of offensive odour coming out from the room of the suspects.
The report, the PPRO said, made the Divisional Police Officer in charge of Kemta Division, CSP Adeniyi Adekunle, to lead his detectives to the scene to conduct a search.
“On searching the room, a plastic bowl containing fresh different parts of human being, was discovered in the room, and the couple were promptly arrested,” DSP Oyeyemi disclosed.
The human parts found in the bowl included hands and breasts among others.
During interrogation, the suspects were said to have confessed that they were herbalists and that the human parts were given to them by one Michael who they claimed resided at Adatan area of Abeokuta.
However, efforts by the police to get Michael that was mentioned proved abortive as the suspects could not locate his house.
Thenewsbearer gathered that before the discovery of the human parts with the couple, a dismembered body of an unknown person was found in a swampy area at Leme area of Abeokuta about a week ago, but it had yet to be clear whether the discovered parts belonged to the found body or not.
The police spokesman said that the state Commissioner of Police, Lanre Bankole, had ordered the immediate transfer of the suspects to Homicide Section of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department for discreet investigation.
The police commissioner also vowed that anyone directly or indirectly involved in the crime would be brought to book to serve as deterrence to others.
