A 21 year- old female student of Gateway ICT Polytechnic, Miss Morenikeji Owolabi, was reportedly butchered by suspected ritualists at Eposo-Akaka community, Isara in Remo-North Local Government Area of Ogun State.
Police said yesterday that five persons have been arrested in connection with the incident, while the suspected herbalist who allegedly lured the victim to the shrine, Femi Awise, is on the run.
The suspects include the Okada rider who conveyed the victim to the shrine, Adeyemi Ademolu, an apprentice to Awise, Omolasi Taiwo, Lateef Ali, Akinyemi Dare, and Sokoya Wasiu.
The state Commissioner of Police, Valentine Ntomchukwu, who led a team of journalists to the shrine located in the forest said investigation has commenced to unravel the circumstances which led to Morenikeji’s murder and the motive behind it.
“The most scary aspect was that we found an iron pot which was filled with some of the victim’s flesh which had been cooked. It was kept on a stand, oozing with a terrible odour. The decomposing legs of the victim dug out of the shallow grave where they were buried some few metres away from the shrine were also discovered.
However, the head of the victim and other vital parts like breasts, hands, and vagina among others were not found. But something that looked like her liver was placed on a fire place outside”, he said.
The local government chairman, Femi Soyemi, expressed shock over the incident. He said, “I was shocked because I never expected this kind of horrible and brutal thing here.”
Ntomchukwu said the shrine was discovered through discreet investigation by his men. In another development, a 40-year-old kidnapper, Emeka Obi, was arrested on
Tuesday for allegedly kidnapping a 97-year-old man, Iposiola Samaiye.
He said Obi, a member of a kidnapping syndicate operating in Ijebu axis, said his accomplice, Prince, has gone into hiding.
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