Operatives of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested four persons for allegedly being in possession of a human skull.
Yhe state’s Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Mr. Abimbola Oyeyemi, made the disclosure in a statement issued in Abeokuta on Monday.
According to him the suspects, a couple, Niyi and Remilekun Folorunso, were arrested alongside one Muyideen Tolubi and a herbalist, Sonubi Taiwo, after they allegedly dug out a corpse and severed its head.
The PPRO said the suspects were arrested by officers of the Odogbolu Police Division following a tip off that some people were digging up a grave with the aim of removing the corpse of someone who was not in anyway related to them.
He said: “The Divisional Police Officer (DPO), Odogbolu Division, Afolabi Yusuf, led his detectives to the scene, but the suspects had already removed the head of the corpse and left.
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“The police then embarked on an intelligence-based investigation which led to the arrest of the couple and two others.
“The three of them confessed being the persons that dug the grave and removed the head of the corpse.
“They later took detectives to Ikenne, where the fourth person who asked them to bring the head for ritual purpose was apprehended.”
Oyeyemi said that the state Commissioner of Police, Edward Ajogun, has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspects to the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department for further investigation and prosecution.
