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The Ogun State Police Command has apprehended five individuals suspected of selling human body parts. The suspects, Oshole Fayemi (60), Osemi Adesanya (39), Ismaila Seidu (30), Oseni Oluwasegun (69) and Lawal Olaiya (50), were arrested at their hideouts while planning their next operation. SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, the Police Public Relations Officer in the State, revealed this in a statement on Sunday.
The suspects are believed to be ritualists who have been exhuming corpses from graves and removing body parts for ritual purposes. The gang was apprehended on Saturday after the police at Odogbolu divisional headquarters received information that the gang was planning to carry out another round of human parts harvesting. The suspects are thought to be responsible for a series of corpse exhumations within the Ososa community in the Odogbolu Local Government Area of the state.
Upon interrogation, the suspects confessed that they were involved in exhuming corpses from graves and selling parts of them to buyers who need them for money-making rituals. Commissioner of Police, Frank Mba, has ordered that the suspects be transferred to State Criminal Investigation Departments for further investigation and potential prosecution.
