Three Clerics Exhume And Tamper With Corpse Of One-year-old Boy After Officiating At His Burial

Three muslim clerics who are identified as Aliyu Musa, Aliyu Taiye, and Wasiu Babatunde, were arrested for allegedly exhuming the corpse of a one-year-old boy identified as Taiwo Bisiriyu and thereafter using it for ritual in Omi-ifon in Odigbo LGA, Ondo State

Taiwo died on Friday, July 5, 2024, and was buried the same day, while the clerics officiated at the burial. However, the incident happened on Tuesday, July 9, 2024

According to some residents, some of the items allegedly found in the clerics’ homes, included a pestle and a mortal, concoction, sponge, and black pot, among others.

The deceased’s guardian identified as Risikat Bisiriyu said, “The boy was ill and I took him to a Maternity Centre for treatment. He was later referred to the General Hospital in Ore. But on getting there, the boy died.

Since we are Muslims by religion, we decided to bury the boy the same day, and we invited the clerics to officiate.

When we got to where the boy would be buried, one of the clerics who carried the corpse went far into the bush to bury him. But the younger brother of the deceased’s father insisted he should bury the child at a particular place, not far inside the bush.

The child d+ed on Friday. So, on Monday, around 10 am, we were sitting outside the house, when the wife of one of the clerics came and told us that she didn’t know what her husband brought into the house that was smelling. But we paid no attention to what she said

About 11pm on Monday, we began to hear the cleric pounding some things till 4.30am. I jokingly said only God knows what he was pounding all through the night that disturbed our sleep.