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.... ....   Home  |  Cover Stories  |  National Newsreel  |  Politics  |  Business  |  Sports  |  World  | Contact  | Advert Rates  Towards a better life for the people Search The Archives   Cover Stories National News South West Niger Delta South East North Politics Business Sports World Viewpoints Features   COVER STORIES Balogun visits Okija shrine tomorrow By Kingsley Omonobi Tuesday, August 17, 2004 ABUJA— INSPECTOR-General of Police, Mr. Tafa Balogun, will tomorrow undertake an on-the-spot tour of the Okija shrine in Ihiala local government area of Anambra State. Meanwhile,  the 31 suspects arrested in connection with the discovery of 83 corpses including 63 headless bodies and 20 skulls at the shrine will be charged to court under the nation’s criminal codes. They are to be charged with “unlawful possession of human heads, obtaining goods by false pretence, misconduct with regards to corpses and unlawful trial by ordeal,” among others, according to a police source. Vanguard gathered that the investigation team put in place by the IGP comprising the IG’s monitoring unit and the mobile police squad from Mopol 44, had submitted an interim report of it findings concerning allegations of using the corpses for ritual purposes and 419. Mr.  Balogun was said to have decided to personally visit the shrine and see things for himself to enable him brief President Olusegun Obasanjo properly on the matter. The 31 suspects who were paraded before newsmen last weekend with the skulls recovered from the shrine are still being detained at the Force Headquarters, Abuja. Meanwhile, security has been beefed up in and around the federal capital city following a new wave of bank robbery. Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Mr Sunday Ehindero, noted that more mobile patrol teams would be deployed on account of the situation.   Home  |  Cover Stories  |  National Newsreel  |  Politics  |  Business  |  Sports  |  World  | Contact  | Advert Rates © 1998- 2004. Vanguard Media Ltd.

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