Four Held in Kwara Over Human Body Parts

The Kwara State Police Command has arrested four men in connection with two separate cases involving the alleged removal of human heads from exhumed graves and possession of suspected human hands reportedly intended for money-making rituals.

The Commissioner of Police, Ojo Adekimi, disclosed this on Tuesday while briefing journalists at the command headquarters in Ilorin, where he detailed the investigations.

In the first case, police arrested two men, identified as Abu Jimoh and Ayo Jimoh, over the alleged exhumation of graves and removal of human heads from buried bodies at a cemetery in Omupo, Kwara State.

According to the police, the incident came to light in May 2026 when community members visited the cemetery to bury a deceased person and discovered that some graves had been exhumed and the heads of the bodies buried there were missing.

Adekimi said the suspects were arrested at about 5 am on October 8, 2026, while allegedly digging graves at the cemetery.

“Following a painstaking, intelligence-led investigation, operatives arrested Abu Jimoh and Ayo Jimoh at about 5:00 a.m. on October 8, 2026, while they were allegedly digging graves within the cemetery,” he said.

The commissioner said the suspects reportedly confessed during interrogation and identified a herbalist, Mukaila Bello, as the alleged buyer of the missing human heads. However, the police did not say whether they had arrested Bello.

The command said investigations were ongoing and the suspects would be arraigned in court after the process was completed.

In a separate case, police arrested Kamalden Lukmon and AbdulGaniyu Ibrahim after recovering two suspected human hands during an operation along Bakase Road in Alapa, Kwara State.