Police Arrest Human Parts Traders in Ogun

The Ogun State police command has arrested a group of individuals who are specialized in trading human parts.

According to reports, the group was led by an elderly woman and included a grave digger, a buyer, and a seller.

The suspects were nabbed by men of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad after one of the officers posed as a buyer.

A human head was going to be sold to the undercover officer for N120,000 before the police swooped in on the sellers.

The recovered parts include kidneys, heads, intestines, livers, and others.

The police said they began investigating due to the recent increase in the recorded incidents of people disappearing without a trace.

The police added that most of the parts recovered from the gang are fresh.

During his confession, the human parts buyer said he has been in the business for the past four years and has bought human heads from the elderly woman for as little as N10,000 for spiritual purposes.

The grave digger explained that they get some of the heads by exhuming corpses from grave sites and cutting off the head.

Another gravedigger confessed that all he did was dig graves for the gang for N3,000.

He added that he was aware they sell human parts from the cemetery.

It was said that the elderly woman in the gang chopped off a piece of the human flesh and ate it in a bid to convince investigators that what they saw was regular beef, not human flesh.

Meanwhile, the suspects are currently in police custody and will be charged in court soon upon the conclusion of the investigation.