Man docked over human parts ‘possession’

Police have arraigned one Suleiman Babatunde of Eleran in Oloje area of Ilorin, Kwara State, before a Magistrate Court for allegedly exhuming human corpse and for unlawful possession of human parts. Babatunde was docked before Magistrate Bio Saliu for Criminal Conspiracy and unlawful possession of human head and parts, an off ence contrary to section 97 and 219 of penal code.

Th e accused was said to have conspired with his two sons, Abdulwahab Folorunsho Olaitan and Aliyu Oladimeji Olaitan, who are at large, to excavate and exhume the corpse of one Suleiman Saka who died July 26, 2017. According to the Police First Information Report, one Aliyu Baba of Onilu compound, Oloje, was said to have reported the matter at Oloje Police station before it was transferred to the Police Criminal Investigative and Intelligent Department in Ilorin.

“He was in his house when he received information that the grave of his late son, Suleiman Saka, who died on July 26, 2017 and buried on the same date behind the family house compound has been excavated, exhumed and taken away by unknown person. “In the course of police investigations, Saka’s body was traced to Babatunde’s house, where the head, two hands and two legs which were cut off and hidden on top of the ceiling were recovered.” Th e remaining part of Saka’s body was reported to have been driven off by the accused person’s sons and one Jelili in a Honda Accord car with registration number, MUS- 150-ED to a yetto-be ascertain place. Th e state prosecutor, Adewumi Johnson, prayed the court not to grant the accused person bail, stating that the off ence is not bail able. He further argued that granting the accused bail would jeopardize police chances to apprehend the other suspects who are still at large. Counsel to the

accused Sulyman Abdullah, prayed the court to discountenance the submission of the prosecutor, even as he added that the issue of bail was at the court’s discretion. Th e court however agreed with the prayers of prosecutor and remanded the accused in Oke-Kura prison in Ilorin. Th e matter was adjourned to August 30.

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