Baby’s Eyes, Private Part Removed In Hospital

Angry youths of Abule Irokoin Ogun State, southwest Nigeria, have
vandalised an ambulance and an SUV at a medical centre in the area
following the mutilation of a 13-month old boy, ObinnaOle.
P.M.NEWS gathered that trouble started when the parents of the child,
Mr. andMrs. Obinna Joseph Ole, wanted to take the corpse of their dead
child home forburial on Sunday and discovered that the eyes, tongue,
ears and his privatepart had been removed.
The parents, P.M.NEWS learnt, raised an alarm which attracted other
people around the area andthe youths quickly mobilised themselves and
stormed the hospital. They vandalised everything on sight.
According to a police source, if not for the timely arrival of the
Divisional Police Officer, DPO, in charge of Sango Police Station,
Supol Gabriel Dibie and a team of detectives from Sango, the Medical
Director of the Hospital, Dr. Babawale Funsho Joshua would have been
lynched.
When P.M.NEWS visited the hospital Monday, only policedetectives were
around. Two vehicles parked in the compound, an ambulance with
registration number LND 850 AA and Honda Odyssey SUV marked FST 555
AU, were damaged by the rampaging youths, while glass windows in the
building were smashed.
Following the attack, the police from Sango moved inand arrested the
Medical Director of the hospital, Dr. Babawale Funsho Joshua and three
others.
Ogun State Police Commandspokesman, DSP Muyiwa Adejobi, who confirmed
thearrest, said the medical doctor was arrested alongside three others
in connection with the incident
"Obinna Ole was on admission at the hospital for an ailment before he
eventually died. The story became astonishing when the father, Mr.
Obinna Ole, went to claim the corpse of his late baby and discovered
that the eyes, tongue, two lips, two ears, joystick, nails and the
left hand vein of young Ole had been cut-off.
"Policemen attached to Ota Division, led by the DPO, CSP Gabriel
Dibie, moved to the scene and arrested the suspects," Adejobi
disclosed.
He confirmed that the corpse of the baby had been deposited at the Ifo
General Hospital for autopsy.
Three others arrested with Dr. Joshua are Oguntunde Opeyemi, Olaide
Adeyanju and Temitope Muraina.
Adejobi disclosed further that the Ogun State Commissioner of Police,
Ikemefuna Okoye, ordered the State Criminal Investigation Department
atEleweran to investigate the matter.
He assured the public that the police would unravel the truth of the matter.