{"id":156077,"date":"2025-03-21T23:05:29","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T22:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/police-arrests-two-over-possession-of-human-parts-in-oyo"},"modified":"2025-04-04T12:02:35","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T11:02:35","slug":"police-arrests-two-over-possession-of-human-parts-in-oyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/police-arrests-two-over-possession-of-human-parts-in-oyo","title":{"rendered":"Police arrests two over possession of human parts in Oyo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Oyo State Police Command has announced the arrest of two suspsects, Ridwan Bello and Fatai Adeleke, in connection with the possession of human body parts.<\/p>\n<p>The command made this known in a statement signed by its Public Relations Officer, Adewale Osifeso, and made available on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>According to him: \u201cOn Tuesday, 18 March 2025, at about 02:30 hrs, detectives from the Iyaganku Divisional Police Headquarters, acting on a tip-off, conducted a search at the residence of one Ridwan Bello, 35, male, also known as Asalailu, located in the Muslim area of Ibadan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring the search, a female human torso and other dismembered remains, including severed limbs and dried bones, were recovered from bags and a paint bucket.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn his confession, Bello claimed to have exhumed the corpse from a cemetery in Awa-Ijebu, Ijebu North Local Government Area of Ogun State, and admitted to selling the body parts to ritualists. He later led detectives to the cemetery, where his claim was verified.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFurther investigation led to the arrest of Fatai Adeleke, 70, male, an accomplice who purchased human body parts from the suspect for ritual purposes. Adeleke also admitted his involvement in the illicit trade.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe case has been transferred to the Homicide Section of the State Criminal Investigation Department for further investigation, as efforts are being intensified to identify and apprehend all those involved.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe command urges cemetery managers to increase surveillance and prevent further incidents of corpse exhumation by ritualists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Oyo State Police Command has announced the arrest of two suspsects, Ridwan Bello and Fatai Adeleke, in connection with the possession of human body parts. The command made this known in a statement signed by its Public Relations Officer, Adewale Osifeso, and made available on Friday. According to him: \u201cOn Tuesday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":156076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30],"tags":[254,1252,165],"class_list":["post-156077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-nigeria","tag-oyo","tag-police"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Police arrests two over possession of human parts in Oyo - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Oyo State Police Command has announced the arrest of two suspsects, Ridwan Bello and Fatai Adeleke, in connection wi ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/police-arrests-two-over-possession-of-human-parts-in-oyo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Police arrests two over possession of human parts in Oyo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Oyo State Police Command has announced the arrest of two suspsects, Ridwan Bello and Fatai Adeleke, in connection wi ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/police-arrests-two-over-possession-of-human-parts-in-oyo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-03-21T22:05:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-04-04T11:02:35+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/sm_1742585947.383314.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"719\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/police-arrests-two-over-possession-of-human-parts-in-oyo#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/police-arrests-two-over-possession-of-human-parts-in-oyo\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Police arrests two over possession of human parts in Oyo\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-03-21T22:05:29+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-04-04T11:02:35+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/police-arrests-two-over-possession-of-human-parts-in-oyo\"},\"wordCount\":259,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/police-arrests-two-over-possession-of-human-parts-in-oyo#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/sm_1742585947.383314.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Nigeria\",\"Oyo\",\"Police\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Community\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/police-arrests-two-over-possession-of-human-parts-in-oyo#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/police-arrests-two-over-possession-of-human-parts-in-oyo\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/police-arrests-two-over-possession-of-human-parts-in-oyo\",\"name\":\"Police arrests two over possession of human parts in Oyo - 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