Three young boys aged between 17 and 20 years has been arrested for killing a girlfriend of their friend for money ritual.
The boys were arrested by Ogun state police command, in the early hours of Saturday, January 29, 2022.
Spokesperson of the command, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi stated that the suspects identified as Wariz Oladehinde (aged 17), Abdul Gafar Lukman (aged 19) and Mustakeem Balogun (aged 20) were arrested following an information received at Adatan divisional headquarters from the head of the community security guard, that the suspects were seen burning something suspected to be human head in a local pot.
Receiving the information, the Dpo Adatan division, SP Abiodun Salau, quickly led his detectives to the scene, where the three suspects were arrested, while the fourth one who happened to be the boyfriend of the murdered girl escaped.
On interrogation, the arrested suspects confessed that what they were burning in the local pot is the head of the girlfriend of their escaped accomplice.
They confessed further that the girl who was simply identified as Rofiat was lured by her boyfriend simply identified as Soliu to where she was murdered by four of them, after which they cut off her head and packed the remains in a sack, and dumped it in an old building.
The boys led the policemen to the building, where the dismembered body was recovered and deposited at general hospital mortuary for autopsy.
Also the police recovered the short cutlass and knife that was used in cutting off the deceased head.
Meanwhile, the commissioner of police, CP Lanre Bankole, who described the action of the suspects as height of callousness has ordered for a massive manhunt for the fleeing boyfriend of the victim by name Soliu.
The CP also ordered the immediate transfer of the suspects to homicide section of the state criminal investigation and intelligence department for discreet investigation with the view to arraign them in court as soon as possible.
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