Officers of the Nigerian Legion, Ado Odo/Ota local
government area of Ogun state on Sunday, Sept. 13
arrested Oke Akindele and Timothy Oniyide, both residents
of the state for attempting to exhume a corpse. Abother
suspect, Monday Kugbi, was said to have fled upon sighting
the officers but his pregnant wife, Mary Kugbi, aged 20,
was arrested.
According to P.M. News, The Legion, acting on a tip off,
stormed the Igan – Alade community in Yewa North local
government area of the state,where the incident occurred.
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." Oluwaseyi revealed. "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," he
added.
"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," he concluded.
During interrogation 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.
Speaking with P.M. News correspondent, the herbalist, who
hails from Igangan, Benin Republic said,
"Timothy came to me that he wanted a medicine
that will make him to be bold and strong-hearted. He
came with about six other persons. I don't know
anyone of them except Timothy. I gave them a
powder to put into an incision to be made on their
chest and back. I never gave Timothy or anybody
soap to bath with on the corpse. I gave them only
powder for incision,"
However, Timothy maintained that the herbalist gave him
the soap to bath with inside a dug space on the grave.
"I went to him to give me something that will make
me rich and wealthy because my business was no
more yielding profit. He gave me the soap and that
was about a month ago and on Saturday again, I
was there with six other persons and he gave us
another powder to rub an incision on our chest and
back. Other people that went with me to the
herbalist are Prophet Adiitu of Celestial church,
Ijoun, Baba Bukky (Prophet Omilende), Igbogila and
one other Prophet from Cherubim and Seraphim and
three of my friends." The Police headquarters in
Eleweran, Abeokuta, has ordered the culprits to be
taken to Aiyetoro Police Station.
Photo Credit: Abiodun Onafuye
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