In Abeokuta Ogun state, a mortuary attendant has been arrested by security operatives for allegedly cutting off the head of a deceased boy in an attempt to sell for the sum of 50,00 Naira.
The suspect whose name is given as Kushimo Lukman, was arrested by men of the Ogun State owned security outfit, the So-Safe Corps on Tuesday morning.
The So-Safe Corps said the suspect was “an acclaimed mortuary attendant working with MABOD at Oke-Yidi, Abule Oloni, Abeokuta.”
So Safe spokesman Moruf Lukman said that the suspect who lives at 9, Abule Oloni, Oke Yidi, Abeokuta, was apprehended by officers of the corp , while on routine patrol.
He was apprehended “after he had beheaded the corpse of a male minor at the Oke Yidi cemetery in Abeokuta.”
Yusuf confirmed to journalists that the suspect confessed during interrogation that “the beheaded corpse was brought to the cemetery from the Federal Medical Centre FMC, Abeokuta, after he died due to complications from a kidney disease.”
The suspect was quoted to have said that “the parents of the boy, who came from Ibadan, sought his assistance as a mortuary attendant to get the body buried,” adding that “he buried the boy’s body inside the cemetery, in the presence of his parents at about 19:00hrs on Monday.”
However, the suspect was said to have later gone back to the cemetery at 6 am on Tuesday, “to severe the head of the buried boy, and he was caught after a fierce fight with the So-Safe officers, who later overpowered him.”
Yusuf added that the suspect “confessed that the fresh head was requested for by one Chief Ifalonishe (AKA Lanroye) at the rate of N50,000,” saying “it was supposed to be delivered to him at a designated point within Abeokuta.”
However, Soji Ganzallo the commander of So Safe corps has ordered the operation department to ensure that other accomplices are apprehended and made to face the consequences alongside other persons linked to the nefarious acts.
Meanwhile, the So safe corps have handed over the suspect to the Ogun state police command for further interrogation and subsequent punishment.
