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  • 2 mortuary attendants, 5 others arrested over missing corpse

    2 mortuary attendants, 5 others arrested over missing corpse

    The Police in Lagos have arrested seven persons working as mortuary and cemetery attendants over a missing corpse in their custody.

    The Commissioner of Police in Lagos, CP Imohimi Edgal, disclosed the arrests to newsmen while parading the suspects and others on Friday at the command headquarters in Ikeja.

    According to Edgal, on Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018 the Command received a complaint from one Anthony Lawani, younger brother to one Mary Ehinlaiye, now deceased, aged 51 years.

    The complainant said that the body parts of the deceased were sliced off by yet-to-be identified persons.

    “Based on the complaint, I directed the Deputy Commissioner of Police, SCIID, Panti, Yaba to investigate the matter.

    Preliminary investigation revealed that the corpse of the deceased was deposited at St. Raphael’s Devine Mercy Specialist Hospital Mortuary along Ijede Road, Ikorodu, Lagos for preservation.

    “However, one Olusesi Owamade, aged 41 years, a mortuary attendant, with the approval of his supervisor, Michael Olusegun, aged 65 years, erroneously released the corpse to another family.

    “When the relations of the deceased woman came for the release of the corpse for burial, it was nowhere to be found.

    “At this juncture, it dawned on the mortuary attendants that they had released the corpse to the wrong persons.

    “To recover the corpse, five grave diggers working at Sabo Cemetery, Ikorodu were contracted by the mortuary attendants to exhume the corpse for onward handover to its owners,” he said.

    The police boss further said that the suspects conspired among themselves and dismembered the body of the deceased by cutting off the two wrists and heart for a yet-to-be determined reason.

    “Investigation into this case is in progress, while efforts are on to arrest one of the grave diggers named Anifowoshe, who is currently at large.

    “The case will be charged to court and case file forwarded to the Office of the Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP) for legal advice,” he said.

    The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the suspects were taken to the State CID, Panti, Yaba in preparation for arraignment.

  • Boy, 18, kills mother, sleeps with her corpse

    Boy, 18, kills mother, sleeps with her corpse

    An-18 year old boy, Samuel Akpobome Emobor, has confessed that he killed his mother and slept with her corpse for the purpose of money ritual.

    Samuel who hails from Oghara in Delta State committed the act at their rented apartment in Ologbo community in Ikpoba-Okha local government area.

    Speaking to newsmen when he was paraded at the Edo State Police Command, Samuel said he was pushed to commit the act by a ritualist who sells drugs in the community.

    According to him, “I wanted to use my mother for ritual. I am 18 years old. My father is dead. It was one man called One Love that told me to use my mother for money ritual. He promised to give me N50,000 if I killed my mother and sleep with her. He said I should cut my mother’s ear and fingers and bring them to him.

    “I wanted to cut the ears and fingers before the people came in. I slept with my mother only once. I pressed my mother’s neck to kill her while she was sleeping. The One Love sells drugs. He put something inside the drink he gave and he told me to go and kill my mother.

    “The day I went to his house with policemen, the man has ran away. I hail from Oghara. I work in a pure water factory.

    “I now feel very bad because I was beaten badly by people. I did what the ritualist told me.”

    Police Commissioner, Babatunde Kokumo, said the suspect would soon be charged to court.

     

     

  • Police arrest vigilante leader, six others with human corpse in Ekiti

    The Police in Ekiti State have arrested the leader of Vigilante Group of Nigeria (VGN), Mr. Femi Ogunleye, for allegedly torturing a man to death and attempting to secretly bury him.

    Ogunleye (43), also known as Akilapa, was on Monday arrested with six other members of the group who allegedly participated in the arrest and torture of the victim whose name was given as Oke.

    The Police, who were acting on a tip-off, searched Ogunleye’s residence and found Oke’s dead body being prepared for burial in a shallow grave already dug in the compound.

    Other accomplices in the crime are Simon Oluwagbohunmi (35), Muhammadu Saradeen (36), Ojo Muri (30), Peace Okon (44), Sola Sunday (20), and Ogunleye Onaolapo (20).

    The suspects had accosted the victim at Post Office area on July 29 and took him to Ogunleye’s house where he (Oke) was allegedly tortured to death.

    Addressing reporters on the development, Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Mr. Caleb Ikechukwu, a Deputy Superintendent, said the suspects will be charged with murder, cultism and unlawful arrest of innocent persons.

    He stated that the body has been deposited at the mortuary of Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital (EKSUTH), Ado-Ekiti.

    Ikechukwu alleged that the suspects had been the criminal gang terrorizing Ado Ekiti and its environs in cultist related activities and other crimes in recent time.

    According to him, the deceased was arrested on July 29 but the officers of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), acting on a tip-off stormed Ogunleye’s residence along Omisanjana Road.

    Ikechukwu disclosed that on arrival at Ogunleye’s residence, the victim’s corpse and the grave already dug to bury the body was found.

    The police spokesperson added that exhibits including one pump action gun loaded with seven live cartridges, three cutlasses, three battle axes, one long stick, one police belt, one iron rod carved like a local gun, Ifa divination tool and one mini laptop were recovered from the scene.

    Ikechukwu said: “Upon further investigation, particularly when the operatives of the SARS stormed Ogunleye’s hideout, the suspects were found involving in unlawful arrest and torture of one Oke, whose surname and address are yet to be known which resulted to his death at the suspects’ hideout located at Omisanjana area of Ado Ekiti.

    “The Corpse was recovered therein on June 30 at about 5am and deposited at EKSUTH’s morgue for autopsy.

    “Apart from those exhibits police discovered, a shallow grave already dug was discovered by the team of SARS operatives within the premises of Ogunleye’s residence with a plot to bury the corpse of the deceased before the incident was unraveled by the police.

    “During interrogation, the suspects confessed to have accosted the deceased on July 29 at about 1am at the Post Office Area on the pretext of being a thief. Later, the victim later died in their custody at about 8am of the same day having been tortured and inflicted with severe machete cut injuries on his body”.

    He promised that police are still investigating the matter with intention to unravel more facts about the cases linked to the suspects.

     

  • Boy, 19, kills girlfriend, dumps corpse by roadside

    Boy, 19, kills girlfriend, dumps corpse by roadside

    There was pandemonium in Benin, the Edo State capital on Thursday as a 19-year-old boy identified as ‘Junior Omo Shaba’ killed his lover and left her corpse by the roadside.

    The incident happened at No. 2, Akugbe Street, Off Siluko road, Ogida, Egor local government area.

    It was learnt the deceased, Matilda Odiri, who is 18 years old was stabbed to death inside her boyfriend’s room during an argument.

    The deceased was said to have gone to her boyfriend’s house to spend the night when she was stabbed with a knife on her right upper breast.

    Witnesses said the victim was stabbed at about 11pm after she accused her boyfriend of having affairs with other girls

    The boyfriend reportedly dumped her body by the road side after killing her to cover his deeds.

    He was said to have fled when his father called in the police.

    Police sources said the suspect is currently in custody at the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID).

    The police source said the suspect confessed that he murdered his lover and dumped her body on the street to cover his evil deed after an argument ensued between them at night.

    Shaba told the police that he killed his girlfriend with a knife which she used to peel some oranges they took that night.

    Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Chidi Nwabuzor, said it was a case of murder and the suspect would soon be arraigned in court.

  • Sad! See how Moji Olaiya was buried[Photos]

    Sad! See how Moji Olaiya was buried[Photos]

    Family and friends of the late actress, Moji Olaiya thronged the Ikoyi Ebony Vaults venue of Olaiya’s burial earlier today.

    Her body had arrived Muritala Mohammed airport in Lagos from Canada on Tuesday and has now been buried at the Ikoyi cemetery according to Islamic rites. Men dressed in black kaftan carried her remains which was covered in a white cloth and placed in a wooden see-through box.

     

    Her body was met by mourners who filled the hall to capacity and wept as they saw her casket arrive.

    Adunoluwa, Moji Olaiya’s 18-year-old daughter was also comforted by family members, Nollywood actor, Muyiwa Ademola and other friends of her late mother. Moji Olaiya died on May 18, 2017, two months after she was delivered of a baby girl in Canada.

     

     

     

  • Police arrest man for sleeping with girlfriend’s corpse after killing her

    Police arrest man for sleeping with girlfriend’s corpse after killing her

    The Cross River police command, has paraded a 35-year-old man, Sunday Ushie, who confessed to killing his girlfriend identified as Nnena Samuel and went ahead to have sex with the corpse.

    Mr Hafiz Inuwa, the acting Commissioner of Police in Cross River, who paraded the suspect before newsmen on Monday in Calabar, said the deceased was a mother of two.

    He said the incident happened on Jan. 27, 2017 at Adijinkpor village in Ikom Local Government Area of the state.

    “The incident happened on Jan. 27, 2017, following a report at Ikom Divisional Police headquarters from one Cletus Etta of Adijinkpor village that his tenant had killed someone.

    “Upon receiving this information, my men swung into action and arrested the suspect.

    “The suspect confessed to have killed the woman before having carnal knowledge of her.

    “Investigation is ongoing after which the suspect will be charged to court for murder,’’Inuwa said.

    The Commissioner appealed to members of the public to continuously avail the command with useful information that would help it respond to emergency cases promptly.

    In an interview with newsmen, Ushie, a cocoa farmer, said the deceased never gave him the opportunity to have sex with her while alive.

    He said he invited the deceased to his house and killed her with a knife before having sex with the corpse.

    Ushie, who said he regretted his action, blamed the incident on the devil.

    “It is the work of the devil. I do not know why the devil used me. I am the one that killed her. I killed her with a knife.

    “She was my girlfriend and I knew her for just two months before this incident happened. I had to sleep with her corpse after killing her.

    “It was strange sleeping with a corpse. I never had sex with her when she was alive because she never gave me that opportunity.

    “I was always giving her money but she didn’t allow me to have sex with her,’’ Ushie confessed.