A grandmother, whose name is yet to be ascertained, and a driver, simply identified as Ade, are in police custody for allegedly dumping the corpse of a seven-year-old girl, Iyadun Ajayi, at the back of a building in Esa Oke in Osun State.

Our correspondent gathered that the deceased’s mother, known as Funke, had divorced the girl’s father and married an Islamic cleric in Ilesa.

The girl, who resided with the mother and her new husband, was said to have fallen ill, but eventually died despite efforts to save her life.

Funke, it was gathered, sent her mother, the driver, one Kassim and her husband to dump the girl’s body at the back of her former husband’s house in Esa Oke but some residents saw them and raised the alarm while two of them were caught.

One of the residents, who pleaded not to be named, told our correspondent in Osogbo on Monday that the incident happened on Thursday night.

He said, “We saw the people and challenged them, to know their mission. We discovered that they came to dump the corpse of a seven-year-old girl at the back of her father’s house.

“After checking the corpse thoroughly, we discovered that her private part had been removed, the two buttocks, the knees and ankles were also mutilated. We raised the alarm and two of them ran away but the grandmother and the driver were handed over to the police.”

The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Mrs. Folasade Odoro, promised to find out from the police division concerned and call our correspondent back.

She, however, had yet to call back as of the time of filing this report.

Source: PunchNG