Security

Couple, Two Others Apprehended for Alleged Possession of Human Skull

By Web News 612

The Ogun state Police command have arrested a couple Niyi and Remilekun Folorunso and two others, Muyideen Tolubi and a herbalist, Sonubi Taiwo, for being in possession of a suspected human skull.

The state Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, in a statement said the four suspects were arrested last Thursday following information received by the police that the suspects were digging a grave in Odogbolu.

According to him, the DPO Odogbolu division, CSP Afolabi Yusuf based on intelligent information, led his detectives to the scene but the suspects had already removed the head of the corpse and left.

The three of the suspects confessed to being the persons that dug the grave and decapitated the corpse and later took the detectives to Ikenne, where the fourth person who asked them to bring the head for ritual purpose was apprehended.

DSP Oyeyemi said the state Commissioner of Police, Edward Ajogun, had ordered the immediate transfer of the suspects to the state Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department for further investigation and prosecution.

Modupeola Sobukonla

Crime

Cemetery Robbers Meet Waterloo in Ondo

By Web News 835

The Ondo state police command, on Monday, confirmed the arrest of four men in possession of human heads.

The suspects, who were said to be workers at the Akure South local Government council’s cementery, are Adewale Abiodun, 40yrs, Akinola Sunday, 69, Oluwadare Idowu, 67, and one Olomofe, 45.

The suspects were apprehended while severing the head of a newly-buried corpse at the cemetery on Saturday.

A witness told Radio Nigeria anonymously that few hours after the corpse was buried, the family of the deceased returned to the cemetery to make arrangements on how to cover the grave in concrete.

The witness explained that on getting to the grave, family members met the suspects digging the grave with the intention of exhuming the corpse,

It was at that point that it was discovered that the suspects had four severed male heads and a female head.

According to the witness, the family members immediately invited men of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, who arrested the suspects.

Confirming the arrest, the state Police Public Relations Officer, Mr Tee-Leo Ikoro, said investigation had commenced into the case, adding that other members of the syndicate would soon be apprehended.

Leke Adegbite