Two persons were arrested on Sunday night by the officers of the Nigerian Legion, Ado Odo/Ota local government area of Ogun state for attempting to exhume a corpse.
The arrested culprits
Two persons have been arrested on Sunday, 13th by officers of the Nigerian Legion, Ado Odo/Ota local government area of Ogun state for attempting to dig up a corpse for ritual purposes.
The interrogation of the culprits revealed that one of them happens to be a herbalist with his name given as Oke Akindele who lives at 1, Palace road, Agido, Igbogila and Timothy Oniyide, 19, a welder, residing at 3, Olorunsogo street, Igan-Alade in Yewa North local government area of Ogun state.
They were accompanied by a third man currently at large named Monday Kugbi, who lives at Kafe town in Igan – Alade in Ogun. He fled upon seeing the officer last night, while his pregnant wife, Mary Kugbi, 20, was picked up by the Legion.
The Legion,acted upon a tip off, stormed the Igan – Alade community in Yewa North local government area of the state,where the incident occurred.
Narrating the incident to journalists, the Squad Leader of the Nigerian Legion, AOLG, Second Lt. Olorumleke Oluwaseyi disclosed that it took them hours to arrest the culprits while one of them fled away.
The Legion,acted upon a tip off, stormed the Igan – Alade community in Yewa North local government area of the state,where the incident occurred.
Narrating the incident to journalists, the Squad Leader of the Nigerian Legion, AOLG, Second Lt. Olorumleke Oluwaseyi disclosed that it took them hours to arrest the culprits while one of them fled away.
“We got the information that some persons were digging a corpse in Igan-Alade area and when we got to the area around 11:00 pm last night, we conducted our investigation and two names were given to us.
“We picked Timothy, who is the principal suspect at their house where the crime was conducted while his friend, Monday ran away upon seeing our men. We have arrested his wife and still in search of him.
"The herbalist, 50, was the man that gave them a soap to bath with inside a dug space on the corpse,” Oluwaseyi explained.
“We left the town for Abeokuta late last night and passed the night at Eleweran in Abeokuta.
“We were directed this morning to go back to Aiyetoro, the jurisdiction where the incident occurred for proper complain, from where the matter will be transferred to the headquarters,” the Legion boss narrated.
Interrogating the culprits this morning at the headquarters of the Nigerian Legion at Oke Ilewo, Abeokuta, it was gathered that Timothy and some of his friends had gone to the herbalist over the weekend to collect another medicine before they were caught.
As at the time of filling this report, arrangements were in top gear to move the culprits to Aiyetoro Police station as directed by the Police headquarters in Eleweran, Abeokuta.
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