Police operatives have arrested a mortuary attendant, Seun Falana, for allegedly exhuming a corpse from where it was interred and severing the skull at the Trinity Cemetery, Ajegunle, in Lagos State, which he reportedly sold to a herbalist named Olawale Shodolamu, for the sum of ten thousand Naira (N10,000).

Flavision gathered that the duo of Falana and Shodolamu ran out of luck when one Dauda Tijani, whom the herbalist had sent to collect the skull from Falana, was arrested by policemen, who were on stop-and-search around the Alakija bus-stop on the Lagos-Badagry Expressway.

The state Police Public Relations Officer, Bala Elkana, said in a statement on Sunday that during interrogation, Tijani confessed that Shodolamu sent him to pick up the skull. He added that after the herbalist’s arrested, he disclosed the mortuary attendant’s identity, who was also arrested.

He added that all the three suspects would be charged to court immediately after the completion of police investigation.

Elkana stated,

On Sunday, March 1, 2020, around 1.30pm, a team of policemen from the Area ‘E’ Command, Festac, while on routine stop and search patrol at the Alakija bus stop, along the Lagos-Badagry Expressway, intercepted one Dauda Tijani, 42, of No. 23 Omowunmi Street, Orege, Ajegunle, with a black polythene bag containing a human skull.

He confessed that he was sent by one herbalist, Olawale Shodolamu, 70, to collect the skull from a cemetery attendant. The said herbalist was also arrested. He claimed that he bought the human skull from one Seun Falana, 37, an employee of Trinity Cemetery, Ajegunle, for the sum of N10,000.

Shodolamu said he usually grinds the human skull with other substances to prepare charms for his customers. The third suspect was equally arrested. He confessed to digging out graves to remove human skulls to sell to herbalists. An investigation is ongoing. The suspects will soon be charged.

Justin Nwosu

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