By Olufemilade Oyinade
Ogun State Commissioner of Police, CP Lanre Bankole has vowed that the couple and anyone directly or indirectly involved in the possession of fresh human parts would be brought to book to serve as a deterrent to others
A couple has been arrested in the Leme area of Abeokuta by the Ogun State Police Command for being in possession of fresh human parts.
According to a release signed by Deputy Superintendent Abimbola Oyeyemi, Police Public Relation Officer, Ogun State Command, the arrest came just few hours after a family raised the alarm that a young lady who left home for the location where the couple was arrested was missing. A source in the area claimed that the victim was thrown into a nearby swamp after she had been decapitated and vital organs removed from her by the couple .
The Police Statement read:
Men of Ogun State police Command on Saturday, February 12, 2022, arrested one Kehinde Oladimeji 43 years and his wife Adejumoke Raji 35 for being in possession of fresh different human parts.
The couple who were residents of no.72 MKO Abiola way Leme, Abeokuta were arrested following a report lodged at Kemta Divisional Headquarters by one chief Moshood Ogunwolu, the Baale of Leme Community who reported that one Pastor Adisa Olarewaju who was a co tenant with the suspects informed him of offensive odours from the room of the suspects.
Upon 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.
On interrogation, the suspects confessed they were herbalists and that the human parts comprises: hands, breasts and other parts given to them by one Michael who they claimed resided in Adatan area of Abeokuta but all efforts to locate the said Michael proved abortive as the suspects could not locate his house.
It would be recalled that a dismembered body of an unknown person was found in a swamp area at Leme area of Abeokuta about a week ago, it was not yet clear whether the parts was that of the found body or not .
Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, CP Lanre Bankole has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspects to Homicide Section of the state criminal investigation and Intelligence Department for discreet investigation.
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