A mortuary attendant, Kushimo Lukman, has been arrested on Tuesday in Abeokuta, by the men of the Ogun State government-owned security outfit, the So-Safe Corps, while on routine patrol, for beheading the head of a dead boy on the request of one Chief Ifalonishe at the cost of N50,000.
The So-Safe Corps said the suspect, who resides at 9, Abule Oloni, Oke Yidi, Abeokuta, was “an acclaimed mortuary attendant working with MABOD at Oke-Yidi, Abule Oloni, Abeokuta.”
The suspect was reported to have been apprehended “after he had beheaded the corpse of a male minor at the Oke Yidi cemetery in Abeokuta. The suspect confessed during interrogation that “the beheaded corpse was brought to the cemetery from the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Abeokuta after he died due to complications from a kidney disease.”
The suspect was quoted to have said that “the parents of the boy, who came from Ibadan, sought his assistance as a mortuary attendant to get the body buried,” adding that “he buried the boy’s body inside the cemetery, in the presence of his parents at about 19:00hrs on Monday”, of which the suspect went back to the cemetery at 6 am on tuesday, “to severe the head of the buried boy, and was arrested by the So-Safe officers
Meanwhile, the State Commander of the corps, Soji Ganzallo, has ordered the Operations Department of the corps to ensure that his cohorts are arrested.
The suspect has been handed over to the Ogun State Police Command, Eleweran, Abeokuta, for further investigation and likely prosecution.
