Worry over rising instances of robbery of chose human parts at cemetaries in Kwara State

Burial grounds in Kwara State are currently being routinely disregarded by looters and foragers focusing on bodies in graves for mutilation and burglary of decision parts, The Guardian Nigeria reports.

As indicated by the report, delving up crisp graves in Ilorin, Kwara State has turned into a day by day occurence. The culprits for the most part go for chose body parts, for example, genitalia, skulls, heart, liver and whatever else they may favor in the deteriorating body.

Sources told The Guardian, Muslim burial grounds at Oseere and open graveyards at Oke-Oyi, a tired settlement abutting Ilorin from the east, are the most noticeably bad hit.

"We took the remaining parts of a sibling to the burial ground early this month and let him go as per the Islamic ceremonies. In any case, when we came back to the grave two days after with the point of putting cement on the tomb, incredibly we met a dismantled body outside the grave," a source told The Guardian in Ilorin.

Another source said:

"At Oke-Oyi, we went to supplicate at the tomb of our left mother scarcely a year after her demise just to see bits of the wooden coffin on the tomb instead of inside the grave proposing that a few people may have messed around with the remaining parts after internment."

Previous Secretary of Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) Dr. Olusola Ajolore asked the legislature particularly neighborhood committees, to increase endeavors at giving satisfactory security at the graveyards in Kwara State.

"Aside from debasing the burial grounds, the demonstration ought to be seen as criminal and profane. Be that as it may, we require more security at the burial grounds to stem the bad habit."

On his part, the Chief Imam of Ilorin, Alhaji Mohammed Bashir forewarned those straightforwardly or in a roundabout way taking from the burial grounds to abstain "accordingly would not escape God's judgment over the long haul regardless of the possibility that law requirement specialists neglect to capture them and convey them to book."

Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in Kwara, Ajayi Okasanmi said they have not got any such report but rather in any case, encouraged individuals from people in general to volunteer data to the Police on the bad habit pretty much as he debilitated that nearby security monitors utilized to keep watch may consequently be indicted for any recorded burglary at the graveyards.