A mortuary attendant has been arrested in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, for cutting off the head of a deceased boy.
The suspect, Kushimo Lukman, was arrested by men of the Ogun State Government-owned security outfit, So-Safe Corps, on Tuesday morning.
The corps said the suspect was “an acclaimed mortuary attendant working with MABOD at Oke-Yidi, Abule Oloni, Abeokuta.”
The spokesman of S0-Safe, Moruf Yusuf, said, “The suspect was arrested by our men on patrol after he had beheaded the corpse of a male minor at the Oke Yidi cemetery in Abeokuta.”
Yusuf said the suspect confessed during interrogation that “the beheaded corpse was brought to the cemetery from the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Abeokuta, after the patient died due to complications from a kidney disease.”
The suspect was quoted to have said, “The parents of the boy who came from Ibadan sought my assistance as a mortuary attendant to get the body buried. So I buried the boy’s body in the cemetery in the presence of his parents at about 7pm on Monday.”
However, according to the So-Safe spokesman, the suspect went back to the cemetery at 6am on Tuesday “to severe the head of the corpse but he was caught after a fierce resistance.
“The suspect later confessed that the fresh head was requested for by one Chief Ifalonishe alias Lanroye at the rate of N50,000.”
The commander of So-Safe, Soji Ganzallo, confirmed that the suspect had been handed over to the police.
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