Vigilante Group Discovers Human Bones In Ceiling, Arrests Two Suspects In Ibadan

Vigilante Group Discovers Human Bones In Ceiling, Arrests Two Suspects In Ibadan

Two suspects, Rasheed Dauda (41) and Ayoade Kehinde (32), who were found with human bone have said that they found them under a mango tree on the outskirts of Ibadan, Oyo State.

Dauda and Kehinde were picked up by the Oluyole Security Surveillance Team in Oluyole Local Government Area after it received information about the possession of the bones by the suspects.

One of the suspects, Kehinde, who disclosed that the bones were picked from the remains of a female deceased person, however said that he and his partner had yet to decide what to do with them so they kept them in the ceiling of his house.

But Dauda, who admitted sighting the female body under a mango tree with others, denied picking the bones with Kehinde, saying that he never knew that the second suspect went back to where the body was seen.

The OSST Commandant, Olusegun Idowu, who briefed the Nigerian Tribune about the arrest, said that prior to the arrest, the team was informed of how Dauda, who allegedly got drunk in a beer parlour, started boasting that he would soon become rich.

According to the Commandant, “community members who heard of the boasting started wondering what he meant. They also noted the stealing of chickens and other farm products in Bare Community.

“It was some of his friends who felt he was making jest of them when they were arrested for stealing chickens that exposed him, saying that what he was involved in was more terrible than what they did.”

In an interview, Dauda, who said he hails from Popoyemoja but lives at Bare Community, said: “What happened was that in March 2021, I went to Ajanla Community to work. Kehinde and two other boys went with me. We were on our way back when we stopped by a mango tree to pluck some. One of the boys with us said that he was hungry.

“When we got to the mango tree, the boy ran to meet us and invited us to see what he had discovered. When we got there, we saw a decomposing human body and I told them to let us go home, and we left there immediately.

“Since then, I had not been in the area and did not know anything until a few days ago when a boy ran to me and said that someone said I had human bones in my house while I wanted to expose those stealing chickens. I called Kehinde and asked him if there were human bones with him, and he said no, asking me where he would find such when he could not exhume his dead father’s bones.

“The following day, on my return from a meeting of OPC members, I heard of the claim again. I asked Kehinde and he denied it.

To my surprise, I heard this morning that Kehinde said that we both went to take the bones. I didn’t know anything about it. In fact, the bones were found with him and not in my house.”

However, in Kehinde’s confession, he mentioned Dauda, saying that they both picked the skull and bones of the decomposing body. He also said that he didn’t know how the skull disappeared from the room he initially kept the bones, which made him to hide other bones in his ceiling.

He confessed: “It is true that human bones were found with me. I hid them in the ceiling.”

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