The Ogun State Police Command has arrested four young boys for allegedly killing and beheading a girlfriend of their friend for money-making ritual.
Metronetworknews gathered that the suspects, Wariz Oladehinde (17), Abdul Gafar Lukman (19) and Mustakeem Balogun (20) were all arrested in the early hours of Saturday, following a piece of information received at Adatan divisional headquarters from the head of the community’s security guard that they were seen burning something suspected to be human head in a local pot.
It learnt that the DPO of Adatan division, SP Abiodun Salau, upon receiving the information quickly led his detectives to the scene, where the suspects were arrested, including the boyfriend of the murdered girl, Soliu Majekodumi.
It also learnt that on interrogation, the arrested suspects confessed that what they were burning in the local pot was the head of the girlfriend of their friend and that they confessed further that the girl who was simply identified as Rofiat was lured by her boyfriend Soliu to where she was murdered by the four of them, after which they cut off her head and packed the remains in a sack and dumped it in an old building.
They subsequently led policemen to the building, where the dismembered body was recovered and deposited at general hospital mortuary for autopsy. The short cutlass and a knife used in cutting off the deceased head were also recovered.
The Public Relations Officer of the command, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, confirmed the incident, noting that the Commissioner of Police, CP Lanre Bankole, who described the action of the suspects as height of callousness has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspects to homicide section of the state criminal investigation and intelligence department for discreet investion with the view to arraign them in court as soon as possible.
