Five Human Parts Dealers Confess To Exhuming Corpses From Graves In Ogun

Five alleged human parts traffickers, who specialize in exhuming corpses, have been detained by the Ogun State Police Command.
Abimbola Oyeyemi, the state police public relations officer, reportedly revealed this in a statement on Sunday.

The suspects, Oshole Fayemi, 60, Osemi Adesanya, 39, Ismaila Seidu, 30, Oseni Oluwasegun, 69, and Lawal Olaiya, 50, were detained on Saturday at their hiding places as they prepared to conduct an operation.

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Following information received at the Odogbolu Divisional Headquarters that the gang planned to conduct another round of human parts harvest, the police allegedly stormed the gang’s location.

In the Ososa community in the state’s Odogbolu Local Government Area, many corpses were exhumed from graves for ritual purposes, according to Oyeyemi, who claimed the suspects had made confessional statements.

According to the police spokesman, the suspects will now be transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department for a covert investigation and potential prosecution at the direction of state commissioner of police Frank Mba.

The Divisional Police Officer of the Odogbolu Division, CSP Godwin Idehai, mobilized his men in response to the information and stormed the suspects’ hideout, where five of them were captured, according to Oyeyemi.

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“During questioning, the suspects made confessional statements indicating that they were engaged in the business of exhuming corpses from their graves and that they had previously sold parts of such corpses to their standby customers who needed them for money-making rituals.”