2 Cemetery Attendants Arrested For Exhuming Human Remains, Selling Coffins

Operatives of the Akwa Ibom State Police Commander have arrested two cemetery attendants for allegedly excavating tombs, removing the corpses and selling off the caskets after shabbily reburying the bodies.
The police spokesperson, DSP Timfon John, who told journalists at the Police Headquarters, Ikot Akpanabia, Uyo, the state capital, yesterday, that breakthrough was recorded after a painstaking investigation following a tip-off by residents of Mbiokpooro community in Nsit Ibom local government area hosting the cemetery.
She said, “The Akwa Ibom State Police Command has recorded a significant breakthrough in the investigation into the unlawful exhumation of a freshly buried corpse an...