The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a grandfather, Mr. Segun Kayode, for allegedly exhuming and selling human parts.
According to the police, the suspect, who works at a cemetery in Epe area of the state, was arrested with a human skull.
Police sources told PUNCH Metro that the suspect sold human parts for a living, adding that he had become notorious in the area for selling human parts.
It was learnt that the suspect was arrested following a report by a resident who saw him displaying a skull for sale.
The grandfather, who could not give his exact age, said he started selling human parts because he was poor and jobless.
He said, “I live at 2,Tungbehin Street,
Epe. I have two children and I am a grandfather. I have always been
poor all my life because I had no formal or informal education. I used
to be a fisherman but when there were no longer fishes in rivers in my
area, I became a gardener at Epe Local Government Secretariat
“About four years ago, the LG said they no longer needed my services so I started trimming grass at a cemetery in the area.”
The suspect, who did not deny the
allegations, said there was nothing wrong in selling dead people’s
parts since the dead never used them.
He said one day, while he was clearing weeds in the cemetery, he noticed a human skull which had been dug up.
He said, “Most times, when a corpse is
not buried with a coffin, the possibility of the corpse resurfacing is
very high. So, what workers at the cemetery do is to gather some of the
corpses and burn them instead of burying them again.
