Shallow graves found in home of Prophet who chained 13 children, 15 adults

Shallow graves have been discovered in the home of a prophet, Emmanuel Adeyemi, who was arrested last week for having in chains 13 children and 15 adults in his Ojodu, Lagos State house.
The discovery were made by detectives investigating the discovery of the 28 persons found in chain, including a boy said to be Adeyemi’s stepson, Toba Adedoyin.
The graves were located both in the house and the swamp behind the house.
The discovery of the graves was made by detectives deployed for the investigation of the case against Adeyemi by the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni.
The detectives were said to be from Area G.
Owoseni confirmed the development.
He said: “When we got information that a teenager was locked up in a house, the area Commander had invited the suspect, who claimed that his son was known for stealing and so he locked him up in chains to cure him of stealing.
“While we were still on that case, we got another credible tip off that there were other people chained up in that same house.
“Of course, we carried out a raid and confirmed the allegation to be true.
“But before then, we had contacted the Lagos State Government because we don’t have the facility to keep the rescued persons.
“His claims now that he was arrested is that he is a herbalist, but why didn’t he tell us that when we first invited him to the station over locking up his stepson?
“He only told us that he wanted to cure his son of stealing. .
“We had another tip off that there were people he buried in that compound and he confirmed it during interrogation.
“Because the area is swampy, the suspect had allegedly buried some people in the swamp and about three others in the house.
“When we asked him of their identities, he said it was some of his patients that were brought to his home from the hospital, after they were given up for dead, that finally died in his care and were buried in the swamp.
“When we also queried him on the claims that he used the body parts of the deceased to sell to ritualists, he swore that he was only a traditional healer and not a human parts seller.”