The Ogun State Police Command has arrested three teenagers in Oke Aregba area of Abeokuta for allegedly beheading a lady, said to be a girlfriend of one of them for money ritual.
The suspects were arrested in the early hours of Saturday while burning the head of the lady for money ritual.
The suspects were simply identified as Wariz Oladehinde, 17, Abdul Gafar Lukman, 19 and Mustakeem Balogun 20.
It was gathered that, a community security guard, Mr Segun Adewusi, had observed that some four boys were burning something suspected to be human head in a local pot.
The security guard immediately alerted the police at Adatan station, who went to the scene and arrested the three the boysehile the fourth one had fled before police arrived.
It was learnt that the slain girl, identified as Rofiat, was a resident of Idi-Ape, and was a girlfriend to one of the teenagers, named Soliu.
Soliu was said to have lured the girl to his room, where he held her down and asked one of his friends to slaughter her with a knife.
The PPRO in the state, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi confirmed the incident.
He said the suspects were arrested following an information received at Adatan divisional headquarters from the head of the community security guard.
According to him, “Three young boys whose ages range between 17and 20 years were in the early hours of Saturday 29th of January, 2022 ,arrested by men of Ogun State Police Command for killing a girlfriend of their friend for money making ritual “Upon the information, the DPO Adatan division, SP 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 arrested suspects confessed that what they were burning in the local pot is the head of the girlfriend of their escaped accomplice.
“They confessed further that the girl who was simply identified as Rofiat 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 dumped it in an old building.
“They subsequently led policemen to the building, where the dismembered body was recovered and deposited at general hospital mortuary for autopsy. The short cutlass and a knife used in cutting off the deceased head were also recovered,”
The police spokesperson added that the Commissioner of Police, Lanre Bankole, who described the action of the suspects as the height of callousness has ordered for a massive manhunt for the fleeing boyfriend of the victim.
Bankole also ordered the immediate transfer of the suspects to homicide section of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department for discreet investigation with the view to arraign the suspects in court as soon as possible.