Operatives of the Ogun State Security Network, also known as the Amotekun Corps, have arrested two suspects for allegedly exhuming corpses and in possession of human skulls.
The Amotekun state commander, David Akinremi, in a statement on Thursday confirmed that about four other suspects were arrested for alleged cultism, stealing and kidnapping.
Along with the four suspects, the two suspects Busari Aliu and Adetayo Segun, caught with the skull, have been transferred to the Ogun state Police command for further investigation and prosecution.
Akinremi said the two suspects specialised in exhuming corpses at Agunboye cemetery, Agunboye, Ijebu-Igbo, Ogun State, removing the skulls and selling them to other members of their ritual gang.
The statement read, “On November 4, 2022, one Ibu Benjamin of Ayegbami quarters, Agunboye Ijebu-Igbo, reported at the Amotekun office at Ijebu-Igbo that, on the same date, he discovered that one heavy iron pallet, valued at N350,000, property of his landlady, Mrs. Idowu, kept within the precincts of a fenced farm and a house yard at Agunboye was stolen by unknown persons.
“Consequently, operatives of the corps embarked on intelligence activities with a view to getting those behind the crime.
“Their efforts paid off on November 20, 2022, with the arrest of these two suspects, Busari Aliu and Adetayo Segun, who not only admitted their involvement, but led our operatives to recover the stolen item where it was kept.
“On searching the house and premises where the item was recovered, some pieces of carbonated human skull were recovered.
“During interrogation, the suspects confessed that they dug into so many graves in Agunboye burial ground and removed several skulls of buried corpses which they sold to some other members of their ritual gang.”
