Police arrest couple, others with human skull (Photo)

Police have arrested couple and two others with a human skull in Ogun.

OnyxNews Nigeria reports the Ogun State Police Command says it has arrested four persons for unlawfully been in possession of a human skull.

The DPO Odogbolu division, Afolabi Yusuf led his detectives to the scene but the suspects had already removed the head of the corpse and left, a statement from the Ogun Police Command stated that on Monday.

The suspects names are: Muyideen Tolubi, Niyi Folorunso, Sonubi Taiwo and Remilekun Folorunso were arrested on Thursday, 24th September, following a piece of information received by the police in Odogbolu division that some people were digging a grave with the aim of removing already buried corpse who was not in any way related to them.

However, an intelligence-based investigation led to the arrest of the couple, Niyi and Remilekun Folorunso as well as Muyideen Tolubi.

It was learned that upon the interrogation, the three of the suspects confessed to have dug the grave and removed the head of the corpse. The detectives led them to Ikenne where the fourth suspect who asked them to bring the head for a ritual purpose was apprehended.

Oyeyemi said Edward Ajogun, the Ogun Commissioner of Police, had ordered the immediate transfer of the suspects to the State Criminal Investigation and intelligence department for further investigation and prosecution.