Court jails man six months with hard labour for possession of human parts

<p>An Iyaganku Chief Magistrates’ Court in Ibadan on Monday sentenced a 30- year- old man, Muyiwa Olaniyan, to six months imprisonment for being in possession of human parts.</p>, <p>The police charged Olaniyan, of Odo-Igbo area, Alariya, Eruwa, with indecent interference with human corpse and unlawful possession of a human head.</p>, <p>Olaniyan was convicted after he pleaded guilty to the charge.</p>, <p>Magistrate T . G. Daudu in her judgment sentenced Olaniyan to six months imprisonment for interfering with human corpse and another six months with hard labour for possession of a human head.</p>, <p>He is to serve the sentence at the Agodi Correctional facility, Ibadan.</p>, <p>The magistrate said the sentence will run concurrently, meaning the convict will spend six months in prison.</p>, <p>Earlier, the Prosecution Counsel, Insp Folake Ewe, told the court that Olaniyan on September 3, at about 3:10 a.m, at the Cemetery area, Eruwa/Igboora Road, Eruwa, indecently interfered with a human corpse.</p>, <p>Ewe said Olaniyan dug out the corpse from the grave and removed a skull and two limbs.</p>, <p>Olaniyan, the police, said committed the offence alongside his wife, Modina, a nursing mother who is on the run.</p>, <p>The convict was caught by members of the hunters and forest guards.</p>, <p>Ewe said the offence contravened the provisions of sections 242 (1) (b) and 329A of the Criminal Code Laws of Oyo State 2000. (NAN)</p>