….. Stage manhunt for fleeing accomplice
The Ogun State Police Command has arrested three out of four young men who killed a lady for money ritual in Abeokuta., the Ogun State Capital.
The Police Public Relations Officer in the State,Abimbola Oyeyemi , confirmed the arrest in a statement on Saturday.
He said the arrest was made following a complaint at the Divisional Police Headquarters in the Adatan area of Abeokuta by the head of the community security guard.
The security guard had reported that the suspects were seen burning a substance suspected to be the head of a human in a local pot.
Oyeyemi explained that upon the information, the Divisional Police Officer, Adatan Division, Superintendent of Police 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 suspects confessed to the crime. They said that what they were burning was the head of the girlfriend of their fleeing accomplice.
“They confessed further that the girl who was simply identified as Rufiat 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 dump it in an old building.
” They subsequently led policemen to the building where the dismembered body was recovered and deposited at a general hospital mortuary for autopsy ” Oyeyemi said.
Meanwhile, the State Commissioner of Police, Lanre Bankole has reacted to the action of the suspects describing it as the height of callousness.and ordered a manhunt for theIr escaped accomplice
The Commissioner also ordered the immediate transfer of the suspects to the homicide section of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department for Investigation and said that the suspects should be arrainged in court as soon as possible.
