Operatives of the Nigerian Legion in the Ado Odo/Ota local government area of Ogun state on Sunday, Sept. 13 arrested one Oke Akindele and Timothy Oniyide, both residents of the state for attempting to exhume a corpse.
Another suspect, named Monday Kugbi, was said to have fled upon sighting the officers but his pregnant wife, Mary Kugbi, aged 20, was arrested.
According to P.M. News, The Legion, acting on a tip off, stormed the Igan – Alade community in Yewa North local government area of the state,where the incident occurred. 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.
"We got the information that some persons were digging a corpse in Igan-Alade area and when we got to the area around 11:00 pm last night, we conducted our investigation and two names were given to us." Oluwaseyi revealed.
"We picked Timothy, who is the principal suspect at their house where the crime was conducted while his friend, Monday ran away upon seeing our men. We have arrested his wife and still in search of him.
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.