Ogun police detain ritualists that exhume bodies from graves

Five people have been detained by the Ogun State Police Command on suspicion of being part of a group that was known for exhuming bodies from cemeteries and taking body parts for use in rituals.

The accused, Oshole Fayemi, 60, Oseni Adesanya, 39, Ismaila Seidu, 30, Oseni Oluwasegun, 69, and Lawal Olaiya, 50, were detained on Saturday in Odogbolu, according to the police public relations officer Abimbola Oyeyemi’s announcement on Sunday.

Shortly before they set off on another human parts harvest in Ososa town, Godwin Idehai, the Divisional Police Officer of Odogbolu Division, and his men were apprehended after receiving a tip that brought them to their hiding place.

The suspects admitted, in Oyeyemi’s account, that they were in the business of removing corpses from cemeteries.

The Police PRO further stated that Commissioner of Police Frank Mba had directed the transfer of the suspects to the State Criminal Investigation Department for further investigation and prosecution. “They said that they usually sold the exhumed body parts to their clients who used them for money-making rituals,” the Police PRO said.