Three teenage boys have been arrested for slaughtering one of their girlfriends for a money ritual.
Gatekeepers News reports that the three teenage boys were caught burning the head of one of their girlfriends, simply identified as Rofiat for money ritual in Oke Aregba area of Abeokuta, Ogun State, Southwest Nigeria.
Men of the Ogun State Police Command arrested them in the early hours of Saturday following the tip-off by one Segun Adewusi, who is the community security guard.
According to reports, Adewusi observed that four boys were burning something suspected to be a human head in a local pot on the road.
He immediately alerted the police at Adatan station, who went to the scene and arrested the three boys while the fourth one had escaped before the police arrived.
A source, who confirmed the incident said the slain girl, Rofiat was a resident of Idi-Ape; and was a girlfriend to one Soliu, who is now in the police net.
Soliu was said to have lured her to his room, where he held her down and asked one of his friends to slaughter her with a knife.
The source stated, “The arrested suspects were identified as 17-year-old Wariz Oladeinde from Kugba, 19-year-old Abdulgafar Lukman from Kugba, and Mustakeem Balogun from Bode Olude, all in Abeokuta.
“The police have taken the body away to a mortuary.”
However, in a viral video made available to Gatekeepers News, one of the boys, Balogun said, “We wanted to use just her head alone for money ritual… Soliu strangled her and he told me to assist him and we cut off her head.”
The Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, who confirmed the incident said the three boys have been arrested.
Oyeyemi said, “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.
“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 noted that the Commissioner of Police, Lanre Bankole had described the action of the suspects as a height of callousness.
“The CP 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 them in court as soon as possible,” Oyeyemi said.
