63-year-old
man, Korede Odubela, has been arrested by the Ogun State Police Command for
allegedly killing his 16-year-old stepdaughter, Amudat Oshimodi, for ritual
purposes.
The
suspect was said to have connived with another accomplice, Lekan Lawal, to
commit the crime at Imosan village, in the Odogbolu Local Government Area of
the state.
The
two suspects were among the 12 suspects paraded at the command headquarters,
Eleweran, Abeokuta, on Tuesday by the state Commissioner of Police, Ahmed
Iliyasu, for various offences, including armed robbery, burglary and stealing.
Iliyasu
said Odubela, who was the leader of the gang, connived with Lawal to strangle
Oshimodi, after which they sold her head and hands to ritual killers.
The
police commissioner said the men of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad received
information about their activities and swooped on them on Monday, November 7,
2016.
Odubela
said he connived with Lawal to kill his stepdaughter because the 16-year-old
girl was always stealing her mother’s money.
He
said, “The mother said we should kill her as a sacrifice for other children she
had. She (Oshimodi) normally slept by the outside door. On that day, around 12
midnight, I invited Lekan Lawal, and he held the girl by the neck and strangled
her while I held her legs.”
Odubela
said he sold Amudat’s head to his son, Seun, a herbalist who paid him
N3,000, as part payment.
However,
Odubela’s wife, Fausat, denied asking her husband to kill her daughter.
Iliyasu
said the case was still under investigation, while the corpse of Amudat had
been deposited at the morgue of the Ijebu Ode General Hospital.
The
command also paraded suspected robbers –Tochukwu Njikonye, Abdulahi Abdulamid
and Obinna Mbam – who were said to have been arrested on Monday, October 3,
2016, in the Ogbere area of the state. The police said they were arrested while
robbing motorists of their valuables.
Iliyasu
said the suspects were armed with two pump-action guns and one locally-made
pistol, adding that they usually blocked the road with either truck or wood to
“perpetrate their nefarious activity.”
Six
other suspects were equally paraded for burglary and stealing. The suspects
were said to have burgled the computer laboratory of the Egba-Obafemi
Community Grammar School, in the Obafemi-Owode Local government Area and carted
away 95 tablets (computers) and their chargers.
Iliyasu
said the school principal, Mrs. Ajiboye Olaide, reported the matter at the
Owode-Egba Police Station on Wedneday, November 9, 2016, and the Divisional
Police Officer and his men swung into action.
He
said two suspects were arrested in the bushes around the school, which led to
the arrest of the gang leader, Oluwagbotemi Ojo.
Iliyasu
said the alleged receiver of the stolen computers, Sunday Olufemi, was also
arrested in Ibadan, Oyo State, while all the computers were recovered.
Ojo,
however, said the school’s security guard, Saheed Adamu, gave him information
on how to burgle the computer laboratory.
The
CP also disclosed that his men received information that some armed robbers
used a house in Egbe village in Ijebu Ode as their hideout, adding that one
Gbenga Olowolafe was arrested with one pump-action gun and one double-barrelled
gun.
The
suspect, however, said he was the coordinator of the Oo’dua Peoples Congress in
the Egbe area.
Source:The Punch
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