Five suspected members of a gang that specialised in exhuming corpses from graves and removing body parts for ritual purposes have been arrested in Ogun State.
According to the Police the suspects are identified as; Oshole Fayemi, 60, Oseni Adesanya, 39, Ismaila Seidu, 30, Oseni Oluwasegun, 69 and Lawal Olaiya, 50.
Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi on Sunday announced that they were arrested on Saturday in Odogbolu.
They were nabbed following a tip-off that led the Divisional Police Officer of Odogbolu Division, Godwin Idehai and his men to their hideout shortly before they embark on another human parts harvest in Ososa town.
According to Oyeyemi, the suspects confessed they were in the business of exhuming corpses from graves.
“They said that they usually sold the exhumed body parts to their clients who used them for money-making rituals,”
