Operatives of the Ogun Police Command have arrested one Kehinde Oladimeji, 43 years, and his wife Adejumoke Raji (35) for allegedly being in possession of fresh human parts.
The couple reside at no.72 MKO Abiola way Leme, Abeokuta in Abeokuta South LGA of Ogun State.
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Our correspondent gathered that the suspects were arrested following a report lodged at Kemta Divisional Headquarters by one Chief Moshood Ogunwolu, the Baale of Leme Community.
The Baale reportedly told police that a certain Pastor Adisa Olarewaju who is a co tenant with the suspects informed him of offensive odours coming out from the room of the suspects.
The Police spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi, on Saturday, told newsmen that following the complaint, the DPO Kemta Division, CSP Adeniyi Adekunle, quickly led his detectives to the scene where search was conducted.
“On searching the room, a plastic bowl containing fresh different parts of human being was discovered in the room, and the couple were promptly arrested,” Oyeyemi said.
According to him, the suspects when interrogated, confessed they were herbalists and that the human parts comprising hands, breasts and other parts were given to them by one Michael who they claimed resided in Adatan area of Abeokuta.
He quoted them as saying; “efforts to locate the said Michael proved abortive as the suspects could not locate his house.”
The Police spokesman recalled that a dismembered body of an unknown person was found in a swampy area at Leme area of Abeokuta about a week ago.
But he explained that; “it is not yet clear whether the parts is that of the found body or not.”
The Police publicist said the Commissioner of Police, Lanre Bankole, had ordered the immediate transfer of the suspects to Homicide Section of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department for discreet investigation.
“The CP vowed that anyone who is directly or indirectly involved in the crime would be brought to book to serve as a deterrent to others,” he said.
Our correspondent reports that this is coming barely two weeks that four teenagers were arrested for slaughtering and burning the head of one Sofiat Kehinde, for money rituals.
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