Cemetery guards arrested with human heads in Ondo

The southwest security outfit, Amotekun in Ondo has arrested two cemetery security guards for allegedly being in possession of heads of the dead bodies buried in a religious body’s cemetery.

It was gathered that the incident occurred at the Surulere area of Ondo town on Sunday.

Another report said that the two suspects were arrested while still digging graves to exhume the dead bodies when they were apprehended that no human heads were found with them.

The timely intervention of the state security outfit codenamed Amotekun prevented irate youths from killing them.

Report had it that one of the security guards identified as Alhaji was caught with a bag containing heads of dead bodies by some people in the area.

The Vanguard quote a source as saying; “Very early today (Sunday) somebody went to defecate in a bush beside the cemetery and he saw Alhaji with a sledgehammer and he broke one of the tombs in the cemetery.

“After some minutes he came out with a bag. So the person that saw him raised the alarm and we rushed to the scene. When we checked the bag Alhaji carried, we saw a human head in the bag.

“When we went around the cemetery, we discovered that about 44 tombs have no dead bodies inside them, they have been exhumed by ritualists. So we have handed them over to the Amotekun corps.”

Chief Adetunji Adeleye , the state Commandant of Amotekun, who confirmed the arrest of the suspects however said that no human heads were found on the suspects when arrested.

” The suspects were rescued by our men when the residents were about to kill them. We have handed them over to the police,” he said.

But when contacted the state Police spokesperson Tee- Leo Ikoro said the suspects were yet to be handed over to them.