Five suspected members of a gang allegedly involved in exhuming corpses from their graves and removing parts of their bodies for ritual purpose were on Saturday , March 11, 2023, arrested by policemen from Ogun State Command.
The suspects included Oshole Fayemi, 60; Osemi Adesanya, 39; Ismaila Seidu, 30; Oseni Oluwasegun, 69 and Lawal Olaiya, 50.
The command’s spokesman, SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, in a statement on Sunday, March 12, said that the suspected ritualists were arrested, following an information received by the police at Odogbolu divisional headquarters that the gang members who are responsible for series of corpse exhumation within Ososa community were planning somewhere within the town to carry out another round of human parts harvest.
“Upon the information, the Divisional Police Officer, Odogbolu Division, CSP Godwin Idehai, mobilized 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 corpse to their standby buyers who need it for money-making rituals,” the PPRO stated.
He added that the state Commissioner of Police, Frank Mba, has directed that the suspects be transferred to State Criminal Investigation Department for further investigation and prosecution if found culpable.
