Police arrest 5 ritualists in Ogun

The operatives of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested five suspected ritualists, who specialise in exhuming corpses from graves and removing body parts for rituals.

The command’s spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi, who disclosed this via a statement issued on Sunday, said the suspected ritualists were arrested on Saturday in Odogbolu.

Oyeyemi gave the names of the suspects as Oshole Fayemi, 60; Oseni Adesanya, 39; Ismaila Seidu, 30; Oseni Oluwasegun, 69; and Lawal Olaiya, 50.

He said the suspects were arrested following intelligence received by the police at Odogbolu Divisional Headquarters that the gang was planning to carry out another round of human parts harvest in Ososa town.

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He said the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of Odogbolu Division, Godwin Idehai, immediately mobilised his men and stormed the suspects’ hideout where five of them were apprehended.

“On interrogation, the suspects made confessional statements that they were actually into the business of exhuming corpses from their graves.

“They said that they usually sold the exhumed body parts to their clients who used them for money-making rituals,” he said.

Meanwhile, the Ogun State Commissioner of Police, CP Frank Mba, has directed that the suspects be transferred to State Criminal Investigation Department for discreet investigation and possible prosecution.

The Star