Siblings disagree over sale of family house, removal of parents’ corpses

Operatives of the Osun State Police Command have begun an investigation into the alleged sale of a house belonging to the late Pa Azeez Rauf by one of his sons, Mutiu Rauf Okunola, who allegedly exhumed his parents’ corpses buried in the premises.

It was gathered that the property, located around the Dada Estate area of Osogbo, the Osun State capital, had generated ripples among the children of the deceased.

The children of the late Mr and Mrs Azeez Rauf accused their sibling, Rauf Mutiu Okunola, also known as Tato, of selling their late parents’ property and exhuming their corpses without the consent of the remaining children.

The dispute was said to have begun when Mrs Adedoyin Rukayat, one of the surviving children, discovered that the family property had been sold by Mutiu. Apart from selling the house, Rukayat, who spoke to journalists, also alleged that her brother exhumed the remains of their parents without informing or consulting other children—Rukayat, Fatimo, Khadijat, Teslim, and Qouadr Rauf.