Ogun Police Command confirms arrest of teenagers, who killed friend’s lover for ritual
By KEMI KASUMU
The police in Ogun State has confirmed the reported crime involving a boy, Soliu Majekodunmi, who assisted by three friends, cut off the head of his girlfriend, Rofiat, in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital, in the early hours of Saturday 29 January, 2022, adding that the three friends have been arrested while the main boyfriend to the deceased girl is at large.
Recall that The DEFENDER reported the incidence Saturday morning but also noted it was awaiting response from DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, the Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), to his WhatsApp message to confirm and give details of the incidence.
We gathered that the escapee Soliu was later arrested by the police but the statement from the command did not mention his arrest except arrest of his three co-travellers in crime.
The PPRO, while making his confirmation public in a statement with reverence number: AZ:5310/OGS/PRO/VOL.7/72/ and dated 29/01/2022, said:
“Three young boys whose ages range between 17and 20 years were in the early hours of Saturday 29th of January 2022 arrested by men of Ogun state police command for killing a girlfriend of their friend for money making ritual.
“The suspect, Wariz Oladehinde, 17 years, Abdul Gafar Lukman 19 years and Mustakeem Balogun 20 years were all 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.
“Upon 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.
“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.
“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,” DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, an Associate Member of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations, said in the statement obtained by The DEFENDER.
