Herbalist, Four Others Slaughter Housewife, Okada Rider For Ritual In Ogun

The Ogun State Police Command has
arrested an herbalist and four other suspects for allegedly slaughtering and dismembering a 45-year-old housewife, Memunat Akinde, and a motorcyclist, Ibikunle Ajose.

The suspects were said to have committed the offence in the Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area of Ogun State on October 1, 2020.

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Ajinde, who had hired the okada rider to take her to where to buy fish and the motorcyclist were declared missing after they failed to return home .

The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said in a statement on Wednesday that the suspects had been arrested.

The PPRO stated that the victims went missing on October 1, 2020, when the woman, who was a fish seller, left her house in the Idoleyin area of Ado-Odo to a nearby market to buy fish. He said the two of them never returned home and the family reported the case to the police.

He said, “This prompted the woman’s husband to lodge a complaint at the Ado-Odo Divisional Headquarters, where the case was formally recorded.

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“The case was later transferred to the Anti-Kidnapping Unit of the state Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department on the orders of the Commissioner of Police, Edward Ajogun, who instructed the team to unravel the mystery behind the disappearance of the two within the shortest possible period.

“The team there and then embarked on an intelligence and technical-based investigation and the efforts paid off when one of the suspects, Okediran Monsuru, was traced to Badagry and apprehended.

“His arrest led to the apprehension of three others, Ajaoba Monday, Akewusola Wajud and Nupo Pona.”

The PPRO said the suspects confessed that they slaughtered and dismembered the victims. He said the suspects told the police that they carried out the crime on the instructions of one Lebo.

The PPRO said the police investigating team recovered the woman’s head from the herbalist’s shrine, while Lebo, said to be the contractor, is still being hunted.

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The PPRO stated, “The four of them confessed that they were working for a notorious land-grabber, whom they simply identified as Lebo; they stated that they accosted the victims at Abisoye village, abducted them and took them to an uncompleted building in a bushy area, tied their hands and legs, and later called their principal on the phone to inform him that they had succeeded in getting the victims.

“They confessed further that when the said Lebo came, he ordered them to slaughter the two victims. The trio of Okediran Monsuru, Ajaoba Monday and Akewusola Wajud held the victims down, while Nupo Pona slaughtered them with a sharp cutlass.

“Having killed them, the fifth suspect, Dasu Sunday, who is an herbalist, was invited, and on his arrival, they cut the victims into pieces and loaded their parts into a sack brought by the herbalist, who took the parts away for money-making rituals.

“The head of the woman was recovered at the herbalist’s shrine. The five suspects, Okediran Monsuru, Ajaoba Monday, Akewusola Wajud, Nupo Pona and Dasu Sunday, are all in police custody, while a serious manhunt has been launched for their fleeing principal, simply known as Lebo.”

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