Operatives of the
Inspector-General of Police Special Intelligence Response Team (IRT) have
arrested an herbalist, who allegedly killed his lover and sold her body parts
to different herbalists, Muslim clerics and pastors for ritual at the rate of
N1000 per part.
IRT Operatives, led by
a Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, have arrested 13 herbalists so far
involved the butchering and selling of the victim’s body parts, while many
others are still at large.
The tracking and
eventual arrest of the suspects in different parts of Ogun State was possible
because of the active participation of the Ogun State Commissioner of Police,
Kenneth Ebrimson and his men in the investigation, which stretched into weeks.
The prime suspect,
Segun Olaniyi, claimed that the victim, Abosede Iyada, was his lover. He also
admitted orchestrating her murder for money making ritual.
Operatives launched
investigation into the case on November 15 following a letter of complaint from
Abosede’s parents, Mr and Mrs Segun Adeyemi, residing at Plot ‘2’ Adio Idris
Close, Oke Oko in Ifo Local Government Area. The complaint was lodged at the
IRT office, Ogun State Annex.
According to the
distraught parents, Abosede, married and mother of a child left her husband’s
house in the morning of that fateful day to visit Olaniyi popularly known as
“Agba Isegun,”a native doctor at Ifo area.
Since then Abosede
appeared to have disappeared into thin air. Attempts to call her phone were
abortive as it remained permanently switched off.
After the operatives
launched investigation into the disappearance of the woman, they started
tracking her phone and that of Olaniyi.
Olaniyi was tracked
and arrested in Abeokuta area of Ogun State. During interrogation, he claimed
that he and Abosede were lovers, that she came to visit him on November 15, but
that on arrival at his place, he and his friends, Fagbon and AY, who were
desperately in need of money, abducted and took her to a secluded area, where
they butchered her and sold her body parts to interested buyers within Ogun and
Lagos states.
It was gathered that
following Olaniyi’s confessions, the operatives moved to Abeokuta and different
villages like Ifo, Itori Papalanto and Adigbe area where 11 suspects were
arrested.
Among those arrested,
eight confessed to kidnapping and killing and buying of the body parts of the
victim. The number of those arrested soon swelled to 13.
Those arrested in
connection with the killing and buying of Abosede’s body parts are; Segun
Olaniyi (42), Ayodemeji Adileye (25) aka AY, also known as the human being
butcher, Babalola Akanbi (48), Adeifa Sogbeyinde (37), Rasaq Arabs (27), Sunday
Akinyemi (41), Adewole Olwafemi (38) aka Pastor, Mustapha Ajibola (31) aka
Alfa, Mustapha Iliya (30), Shilola Amodu (38) aka Alfa, Jamiu Abass (25) ,
Smooth Kazeem (37) aka Alfa and Adesola Oduyemi (56).
The IRT Operatives
recovered substances confessed by the suspects to be burnt human parts of
Abosede. Some of the substances were in powdery and liquid forms.
