UCH Mortuary attendant remanded for removing corpse head

A mortuary attendant at the university college sanatorium, Ibadan, Muritala Raimi, has been remanded in Agodi prison with the aid of an Iyaganku magistrate’s
courtroom sitting in Ibadan on Monday.

The 57-yr-vintage mortuary attendant changed into purported to have decapitated an unidentified dead guy and hid it in a bag. but whilst trying to depart the premises, he become stuck with the top.

He tried to run faraway from the scene but become avoided from escaping through policemen in the health facility who arrested him and took him to Yemetu police station.

The rate sheet signed through superintendent of police, Adeniyi Odebiyi, said, “that you Muritala Raimi, elderly fifty seven, at the 15th March 2017 at approximately 05:30 pm at UCH Ibadan in Ibadan magisterial district did steal human skull internal UCH mortuary and thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable underneath phase three of the crook code cap 38 vol. eleven laws of Oyo state of Nigeria.

“that you Muritala Raimi at the identical date, area within the aforementioned magisterial district did misconduct in regards to corpse by means of decapitating a corpse deposited at UCH mortuary and thereby devoted an offence opposite to and punishable beneath section 242 of the criminal code cap 38, vol. eleven legal guidelines of Oyo kingdom.”

After pleading not guilty to the two-depend, magistrate Akanni Monsurat granted him bail within the sum of N200,000 with  sureties in the like sum, Raimi failed to meet the bail conditions.

He was therefore requested to be reprimanded in Agodi prison custody.