We Use Dead Human Parts To Solve Problems For The Living – Says Man, 38,  Caught Inside Cemetery

MICHAEL AKINOLA 

This may not be the best of time for corpses buried in various cemeteries in Lagos State as the demand for human parts has recently increased for sacrifices and ritual purposes.

P.M.EXPRESS reports as disclosed by a 38-year old man, Ebuka Enuma, who was arrested for allegedly sneaking into à cemetery in Amukoko area of Lagos and excavating a human skull from a grave for ritual purposes

but he was caught in the act. 
The suspect, Enuma, admitted before the Police that he actually excavated the skull from the grave inside the cemetery for ritual purposes because of high demand from clients. 

He revealed that they need human parts to solve the needs of the living and he was not the only person that has gone to the cemetery to remove the skull, stating that many need them for various purposes including sacrifices and money rituals.

However, after interrogation, the Police found him culpable and subsequently charged him before the Yaba Magistrates Court for being in possession of human skull. 

When he was arraigned, he pleaded not guilty. 

The prosecutor, Supol Rita Momah, asked the Court to give a date for hearing since he pleaded not guilty to enable the Police to prove that he actually committed the alleged offence. 

The Presiding Magistrate, Mrs. O.A. Salawu, granted him bail in the sum of N100,000 with two sureties in like sum. 

He was remanded in the Correctional Centre pending when he will perfect his bail conditions while the matter was adjourned till 26th July, 2022, for mention. 

P.M.EXPRESS gathered that the Police have since commenced routine monitoring of various cemeteries over the recent conduct of tempering with dead bodies in the State.