Police arrest cemetery worker found with human skulls in Ogun state

Men of the Ogun State State Police Command have arrested a cemetery worker named Oluwatosin Akorede who was found with two human skulls. Akorede was arrested at Isale Oko area of Sagamu, on Sunday, October 2nd at about 7.00 p.m.According to the Command spokesperson, Abimbola Oyeyemi, the man was arrested by a team of policemen during a patrol led by the Divisional Police Officer of Shagamu, Moses Aduroja. The suspect, until his arrest worked in a cemetery along Aiyepe road.

He confessed that he was planning to use the skulls for rituals. It is believed he exhumed dead bodies in some graves in the cemetery and retrieved their skulls.

The state Commissioner of Police, CP Ahmed Iliyasu, directed that the suspect be transferred to the Command Headquarters, Eleweran, Abeokuta, for further investigation.