It would have been a perfect job had the suspect not attempted to “perfect” the job.
The story started on Saturday when some residents of Ola, in Ejigbo Local Government area of Osun State noticed suspicious movements in a Baptist cemetery in the town.
The suspicion, according to a source, made the people curious about the cemetery and this led to the discovery of a man identified as Wuyi Olatunbosun who was allegedly covering up some graves.
A source who is a local security officer, Chief Segun Odejimi told Radio Nigeria that Wuyi promptly attempted to flee the scene the moment he noticed people’s attention had been drawn to him but his escape was caught off by the pursuing eagle-eyed residents.
“I saw about four guys bringing him, I asked them of his crime, they told me that he was caught digging some graves, so we took him to the police station in Ola but no officer was there”, Chief Odejimi said.
“We later took him to the scene in company of his parents where we all confirmed the graves had been disturbed. His parents pleaded for leniency but the pleas fell on the deaf ears of the people.”
We decided to take him to Ejigbo Divisional Police Headquarters, but his parents struggled with us, it was about getting rowdy because the youths were already warming up to dispensing jungle justice, so we went to Ejigbo Police Station. Upon our return with the DPO and DCO, the suspect had escaped!
“By the time we mobilised to their house, both the parents and the suspect had fled” Chief Odejimii explained.
He explained further that it took the intervention of the Ejigbo Divisional Police Officer, DPO, Mr Taye Awodi to prevent the angry youths from setting the suspects’ house ablaze.
Another source who did not want his name mentioned, said Wuyi who is a bricklayer in his midthirties, had exhumed about five gravesites and harvested some body parts overnight but luck ran out on him when he came back in daylight to tidy up the scene.
He explained that the bodies exhumed were remains of known people in the town.
In an informal chat, a police source hinted that the police was aware of the crime and had put mechanisms in place to arrest the suspect.
Adedayo Adelowo
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