A 63-year-old man,
Korede Odubela, has been arrested by the Ogun State Police Command for
allegedly killing his 16-year-old stepdaughter, Amudat Oshimodi, for ritual
purposes.
The suspect was said to have connived with
another accomplice, Lekan Lawal, to commit the crime at Imosan village, in the
Odogbolu Local Government Area of the state.
The two suspects were among the 12 suspects
paraded at the command headquarters, Eleweran, Abeokuta, on Tuesday by the
state Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Iliyasu, for various offences, including
armed robbery, burglary and stealing.
Iliyasu said Odubela,
who was the leader of the gang, connived with Lawal to strangle Oshimodi, after
which they sold her head and hands to ritual killers.
The police commissioner said the men of the
Special Anti-Robbery Squad received information about their activities and
swooped on them on Monday, November 7, 2016.
Odubela said he connived with Lawal to kill his
stepdaughter because the 16-year-old girl was always stealing her mother’s money.
He said, “The mother said we should kill her as
a sacrifice for other children she had. She (Oshimodi) normally slept by the
outside door. On that day, around 12 midnight, I invited Lekan Lawal, and he
held the girl by the neck and strangled her while I held her legs.”
Odubela said he sold Amudat’s head to his son,
Seun, a herbalist who paid him N3,000, as part payment.
However, Odubela’s wife, Fausat, denied asking
her husband to kill her daughter.
Iliyasu said the case was still under
investigation, while the corpse of Amudat had been deposited at the morgue of
the Ijebu Ode General Hospital.
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