The Oyo State Police Command is set to carry out forensic examination of bones and suspected human parts recovered from an abandoned building in Oyo town.
Residents uncovered some decomposing human parts in the building located on the Oyo-Ilora Road in the Oyo West Local Government Area of the state.
The police were called and a suspect was arrested and taken into custody.
The matter was later transferred to the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department at Iyaganku, Ibadan.
Sources in the area told our correspondent that the principal suspect was arrested when he went to the police to know why his father was detained.
A source said, “The police are cooperating with us on the issue of human parts found in an abandoned building in Oyo town.
“The police first arrested the father of the suspect, a very old man. It was when the suspect went to the police station to find out why the police arrested his father that he was detained and the man was asked to go.
“The father of the suspect, who is an imam, is a good man, but his son cannot claim ignorance of what happened in the building.
“The police confronted the suspect that some people saw him going to the building on many occasions. He told them that he once lived in the building and was going there to pray.
“They asked what he used the shovel he always carried there to do and he said some persons used to go and defecate in the building and that he used the shovel to pack the faeces so that the odour would not disturb him. He was just trying to cover his criminal activities.
“But the police have told us that they wanted to carry out a forensic test on the human parts recovered from the building. They don’t want lawyers to use any loopholes to free the suspect.”
The state Police Public Relations Officer, Adewale Osifeso, did not answer calls put across to his telephone line.
He had also yet to reply to a text message and chats sent to him on the case.
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