Two cemetery security guards have been arrested by men of the Ondo State Security Network Agency, aka Amotekun, for allegedly being in possession of heads of dead bodies buried in a cemetery in the Surulere area of Ondo town, Ondo State.
It was gathered that one of the guards, identified only as Alhaji, was caught by residents with a bag containing one of the heads.
A source said the cemetery, where the crime was allegedly committed, belonged to an old generation church in the community.
The source said, “Very early today (Sunday), somebody went to defecate in a bush beside the cemetery and he saw Alhaji with a sledgehammer. He broke one of the tombs in the cemetery. After some minutes, he came out with a bag. So, the person that saw him raised the alarm and we rushed to the scene. When we checked the bag Alhaji carried, we saw a human head in the bag.
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“When we went round the cemetery, we discovered that about 44 tombs had no dead bodies inside them; they had been exhumed by ritualists. We have handed them over to the Amotekun corps.”
The state Commander of Amotekun, Chief Adetunji Adeleye, confirmed the arrest of the suspects, saying they were rescued when residents were about lynching them.
He, however, said the human heads were not found with the suspects.
He said, “The suspects were rescued by our men when the residents were about to kill them. We have handed them over to the police.”
But the state Police Public Relations Officer, Mr Tee-Leo Ikoro, said the suspects had not been handed over to the police. (Punch)
