SAD AND HILARIOUS
AT THE SAME TIME…
MAN DIES WHILE
DIGGING GRAVE TO
STEAL SKULL!!!
There was pandemonium in Ilobu
town, Irepodun local government
area of Osun state in the early hours
of Wednesday, when a dead man
was discovered in an open grave
with a shovel beside him. According
to residents, the man who was
described to be middle aged may
have been attempting to exhume a
corpse for ritual purposes from the
grave he was discovered stone dead.
Saturday Tribune gathered that the
victim and his partners in crime
allegedly came to Tonto compound in
the early hours of Wednesday with a
plot to exhume the corpse of an aged
woman and sever her decomposed
head, allegedly for ritual purposes.
A credible source in the community,
who did not want to be named, told
Saturday Tribune that “this
particular corpse was buried five
years ago and the suspected ritualist
attended the burial in Ilobu.”
He explained:
“There are indications that he did not
dig the grave alone. What we
discovered is that he may have been
attempting to cut off the head of the
corpse when something suddenly
hooked him as he managed to force
half of his body into the grave to cut
off the head.
He got hooked and died on the spot, a
development which possibly compelled
other ritualists to run away from the
scene so that they may not be affected
by the mysterious thing that killed
(their colleague).” While commenting
on how the residents of Ilobu got to
know about the incident, since it
happened in the wee hours, the
source said a woman who was
hawking ogi (a local corn meal)
early in the morning of Wednesday
spotted the torso of the suspect
sticking out of the grave and raised
the alarm.
“His corpse was discovered around
6.30am and his head was covered in
mud. The residents here alerted the
police division in Ilobu and they later
came to evacuate the body and put it
in their van before taking him away,”
Saturday Tribune was informed that
the remains of the suspected ritualist
were subsequently taken to and
deposited at the mortuary of the
Ladoke Akintola University Teaching
Hospital (LAUTECH), Osogbo, the
state capital.
When contacted, the Commissioner
of Police in Osun State, Mr Ibrahim
Maishanu, said he was aware of the
incident, and that the police would
conduct investigation to determine
what led to the suspect’s death. He
said the police could not confirm
that the suspect was a ritualist
because of the circumstances
surrounding the discovery of his
corpse at a grave in Ilobu; that they
would have to investigate the matter
before giving any concrete
information on the incident.
Source:Nigeriaonpoint news
