Two brothers identified as Abdullateef and Yusuf Adekanye, have been remanded in a custodial centre.
They were remanded by a Magistrate’s Court sitting in Ilorin, Kwara State for allegedly exhuming their father’s corpse for ritual.
The police arraigned the two brothers on Wednesday on two counts of criminal conspiracy and exhuming of a corpse.
The offences, according to the prosecution, are contrary to and punishable under sections 97 and 226 of the Penal Code Law.
The prosecutor, Moshood Adebayo, said the duo led some people now at large to their family compound and removed the remains of their late father, Zakarya Adekanye, from the grave without the knowledge of other family members.
