The Ogun State Police has arrested a 42-year-old suspected ritualist with the body of a small boy.

According to the Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, the 42yrs old Ajiboye Emmanuel was arrested at Sapade garage on Friday, December 22, when he was about boarding a vehicle with the dead body wrapped in a polythene bag.

”The odour that came from the bag arouse the suspicion of people in the motor park who quickly alerted the police at Isara division. Upon information, the Divisional Police Officer isara CSP Yusuf Taiwo led policemen to the scene where the suspect was promptly arrested”

”On searching his bag, it was discovered that a baby was wrapped therein. On interrogation, the suspect claimed that he was coming from Offa in Kwara state heading to Lagos where he intended to bury the baby.”

“Not satisfied with the claim, he was taken to Isara division for investigation,” Oyeyemi stated.

Also according to him, the Commissioner Of Police, CP Ahmed Iliyasu, thereafter, ordered his immediate transfer to the homicide section of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department for further investigation.