{"id":1869,"date":"2026-03-24T20:18:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T20:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neptuneprime.com.ng\/old\/?p=1869"},"modified":"2026-03-24T20:18:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T20:18:03","slug":"police-arrest-pastor-two-others-over-possession-of-human-parts-in-ibadan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neptuneprime.com.ng\/old\/2026\/03\/24\/police-arrest-pastor-two-others-over-possession-of-human-parts-in-ibadan\/","title":{"rendered":"Police arrest Pastor, two others over possession of human parts in Ibadan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three men have been arrested in Ibadan for allegedly possessing and selling suspected human parts following a stop-and-search operation by the <strong>Oyo State Police Command<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a statement issued on Tuesday, the Police Public Relations Officer, <strong>Ayanlade Olayinka<\/strong>, said the suspects were apprehended along the Adekile area of Agugu after a patrol team intercepted an unregistered Bajaj Boxer motorcycle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDuring a search of the pillion, the rider was apprehended on the spot, and a package containing flesh suspected to be human parts (intestine) was recovered,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The police identified the suspect as <strong>Oyategbe Joseph<\/strong>, who allegedly confessed during interrogation that he obtained the items from an unidentified individual at Oritaperin area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He further admitted selling the suspected human parts to two individuals \u2014 <strong>Onaolapo Taiwo<\/strong>, 46, and <strong>Ayodele Taiwo<\/strong>, 55.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Acting on the information, police operatives arrested the two men, who reportedly confessed to purchasing the items from Oyategbe Joseph.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The police said the Commissioner of Police has ordered that the case be transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department for a thorough investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All three suspects remain in custody and are expected to be charged in court upon the conclusion of investigations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The command urged residents to remain vigilant and report suspicious activities, stressing that public cooperation is essential to maintaining law and order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n    <div class=\"xs_social_share_widget xs_share_url after_content \t\tmain_content  wslu-style-1 wslu-share-box-shaped wslu-fill-colored wslu-none wslu-share-horizontal wslu-theme-font-no wslu-main_content\">\n\n\t\t\n        <ul>\n\t\t\t        <\/ul>\n    <\/div> \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three men have been arrested in Ibadan for allegedly possessing and selling suspected human parts following a stop-and-search operation by the Oyo State Police Command. In a statement issued on Tuesday, the Police Public Relations Officer, Ayanlade Olayinka, said the suspects were apprehended along the Adekile area of Agugu after a patrol team intercepted an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,37],"tags":[71,485,484,369,486,482,481,483],"class_list":["post-1869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news","tag-arrest","tag-body","tag-human","tag-over","tag-parts","tag-pastor","tag-police","tag-possession"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neptuneprime.com.ng\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neptuneprime.com.ng\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neptuneprime.com.ng\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neptuneprime.com.ng\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neptuneprime.com.ng\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/neptuneprime.com.ng\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1871,"href":"https:\/\/neptuneprime.com.ng\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869\/revisions\/1871"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neptuneprime.com.ng\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neptuneprime.com.ng\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neptuneprime.com.ng\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neptuneprime.com.ng\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}