Officers of the Nigerian Legion, Ado Odo/Ota local government area of Ogun state on Sunday, Sept. 13 arrested Oke Akindele and Timothy Oniyide, both residents of the state for attempting to exhume a corpse. Abother suspect, Monday Kugbi, was said to have fled upon sighting the officers but his pregnant wife, Mary Kugbi, aged 20, was arrested.
The Squad Leader of the Nigerian Legion, AOLG, Second Lt. Olorumleke Oluwaseyi disclosed that it took them hours to arrest the culprits while one of them fled away.
The herbalist, 50, was the man that gave them a soap to bath with inside a dug space on the corpse,” he added. “We left the town for Abeokuta late last night and passed the night at Eleweran in Abeokuta. We were directed this morning to go back to Aiyetoro, the jurisdiction where the incident occurred for proper complain, from where the matter will be transferred to the headquarters,” he concluded.
During interrogation at the headquarters of the Nigerian Legion at Oke Ilewo, Abeokuta, it was gathered that Timothy and some of his friends had gone to the herbalist over the weekend to collect another medicine before they were caught.
Speaking with P.M. News correspondent, the herbalist, who hails from Igangan, Benin Republic said, “Timothy came to me that he wanted a medicine that will make him to be bold and strong-hearted. He came with about six other persons.
I don’t know anyone of them except Timothy. I gave them a powder to put into an incision to be made on their chest and back. I never gave Timothy or anybody soap to bath with on the corpse. I gave them only powder for incision.”
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