The Ogun State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of two teenagers, who allegedlly slaughtered a girlfriend to one of them and burnt her head for ritual.
Sources disclosed that the suspects identified as 17-year-old Wariz Oladehinde; 19-year-old Abdulgafar Lukman, and Mustakeem Balogun, 20, allegedlly strangled the girl, identified as Rofiat, to death, chopped off her head and genitals, packed her remains in a sack, dumped same in an abandoned building in the area and put the human parts into a local pot and started burning it.
The victim, Rofiat, was a resident of Idi-Ape and girlfriend to Soliu, who allegedlly lured her into his room where his friends joined forces with him to slaughter the girl in the early hours of Saturday.
Luck, however, ran out of the suspects when a leader of the community’s vigilante informed the police at Adatan Divisional headquarters that the boys were burning what he suspected to be human head in a local pot.
The State Police Command’s Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Abimbola Oyeyemi, who confirmed the incident Abeokuta, the State capital, on Saturday, said the suspects were arrested following the report incidented at the Adatan Divisional Police Headquarters.
According to the PPRO, “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 severed off her head and packed the remains in a sack which they dumped in an old building,” the PPRO said.”
“Following the matching order given to the DPO Adatan by the Commissioner of Police to ensure the arrest of the deceased’s boyfriend, the DPO and his men had eventually arrested the fleeing suspect Soliu Majekodumi in his hideout. He is 18 years old,” the PPRO stated.
The PPRO disclosed that the State’s Commissioner of Police, ‘Lanre Bankole, has ordered that the suspects be immediately transferred to the Homicide Section of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (SCIID) for discreet investigation, adding that they will appear in Court as soon as investgation is concluded.
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