Herbalist, tailor arraigned for exhuming, mutilating corpse in Ibadan
Three men on Monday appeared in the Iyaganku Magistrates’ Court in Ibadan for allegedly cutting off some flesh from a human corpse buried in their area.
The defendants include a tailor, Tunde Adelakun, 32, and Oluwasegun Akinlolu, 23, both of Omi-Adio and a herbalist, Saheed Oloyede, 54, resident of Bakatari along the Ibadan/Abeokuta expressway.
The police charged the trio with two counts of conspiracy and causing indignity to the corpse.
The defendants pleaded not guilty to the charges.
The magistrate, M. M. Olagbenro, granted the defendants N200,000 bail each with one surety.
Ms Olagbenro adjourned the matter until February 29 for a hearing.
The prosecution counsel, Insp Olalekan Adegbite, told the court that the defendants allegedly conspired to commit the offences.
Mr Adegbite said Messrs Adelakun, Oloyede and Akinlolu, without lawful justification, were alleged to have improperly tampered with the corpse.
He said Messrs Adelakun and Akinlolu, on January 10, at about 5:45 p.m. on their way to Omi-Adio, were arrested with human flesh onward to the herbalist’s house at Bakatari after allegedly exhuming a dead body.
Mr Adegbite said the offence contravened section 242 (1)(b) and 517 of the Criminal Code Laws of Oyo State 2000.
If the defendants are found guilty, they are liable to two years imprisonment.
(NAN)
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