The Police in Ogun State have arrested
one Korede Odubela for selling the head and hands of his step-daughter,
Amudalat Oshimodi, to ritualists.
Odubela was said to have strangled the girl to death, harvested her head and hands before selling them to ritualists.
Also arrested in connection with the
ritual murder of Amudalat, is Lekan Lawal, who allegedly assisted
Odubela to strangle the victim at Imosan area of Ifesowapo Local
Council Development Area of Ogun State.
The duo who confessed to committing the
crime, were paraded Tuesday at Eleweran, the Headquarters of Ogun State
Police Command, by the Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Iliyasu.
Iliyasu said the suspected choked the victim to death and later sold her head and hands to ritualists.
Odubela who admitted the crime, told reporters that he and Lekan carried out the heinous crime.
Odubela said: “it is true that Lekan
Lawal and I connived to kill my step-daughter. The girl was 16 years
old, she was always stealing her mother’s money.
“And the mother said we should kill her
as a sacrifice for the other children she had. Since she normally sleep
at the door post outside.
“So, on the fateful night around 12 midnight, I invited Lekan Lawal, and he held the girl by the neck and strangled her while I held her legs. That was how she died.”
According to him, his step -daughter’s head was sold to one Seun, a herbalist at N3,000.
The Police Commissioner told reporters
that the case was still being investigated while the remains of
Amudalat has been deposited at the morgue of State Hospital, Ijebu Ode.
Credit: The Nation Nigeria
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