Kushimo Lukman, a mortuary attendant, has been arrested for allegedly beheading a corpse in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital.
He was arrested on Tuesday morning by the state-owned security outfit, So-Safe Corps.
Confirming the arrest, spokesperson of the corps, Moruf Yusuf said the suspect was “an acclaimed mortuary attendant working with Mabod at Oke-Yidi, Abule Oloni, Abeokuta.
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“He was arrested by the officers 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, as reported by Daily Trust.
“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,” the medium quoting Lukman.
However, the suspect was said to have later gone back to the cemetery at 6 am on Tuesday, to severe the head of the buried boy, and he was caught after a fierce fight with the So-Safe officers, who later overpowered him.
The suspect “confessed that the fresh head was requested for by one Chief lfalonishe (AKA Lanroye) at the rate of N50,000,” saying “it was supposed to be delivered to him at a designated point within Abeokuta.”
