Samuel Awoyinfa, Abeokuta
A 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.
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