Brothers Who Exhume Their Late Father Corpse For Money Ritual In Kwara
Two brothers diagnosed as Abdullateef and Yusuf Adekanye, were remanded in a custodial centre. They had been remanded with the aid of using a Magistrate’s Court sitting in Ilorin, Kwara State for allegedly exhuming their father’s corpse for ritual. The police arraigned the 2 brothers on Wednesday on counts of crook conspiracy and exhuming of a corpse. The offences, in line with the prosecution, are opposite to and punishable beneathneath sections ninety seven and 226 of the Penal Code Law. The prosecutor, Moshood Adebayo, stated the duo led a few human beings now at huge to their own circle of relatives compound and eliminated the stays in their overdue father, Zakarya Adekanye, from the grave with out the information of different own circle of relatives members. Adebayo similarly alleged that the defendants desecrated the burial floor placed on the Agba Akin Court, Offa, wherein their father became interred in 2012 in line with Islamic rites. He informed the courtroom docket that the defendants exhumed and packed all of the skeletons away for ritual purposes, which contravened the regulation of the land. The brothers, however, pleaded now no longer responsible to the charges. The prosecution prayed the courtroom docket to remand them in custody pending the dedication of the case. The Magistrate, Mohammed Adams, granted the prosecutor’s software and ordered the defendants remanded in a custodial centre. The case became adjourned until April 12, 2022, for similarly hearing.