Three ritual killers who
allegedly abducted, killed and butchered a 400-level student of the Osun State
University, Oluwafemi Shonibare, have been arrested by the police in the state.
The three suspects, whose names
were given as 19-year-old Sakariyau Abdulrofiu, who is an Islamic scholar
popularly called Alfa, 24-year-old Ibrahim Ayuba, and 18-year-old Yusuf Aliu,
were arrested after the decomposing body of the victim was discovered behind
Abdulrofiu’s house.
Shonibare was declared missing
from his apartment outside the campus. His corpse was later found in a bush
behind the Alfa’s house after nine days of searching.
The matter was reported to the
police and operatives immediately arrested Abdulrofiu.
During interrogation, he
confessed that he and the other suspects had killed Shonibare, cut off his head
and roasted it as part of the money making rituals.
According to the report,
Abdulrofiu further confessed that they hit the student with a pestle on the
head and later butchered him.
He added that the deceased’s head
was roasted but said that luck eventually ran out on them and they were
apprehended by the police.
Confirming the incident, the
state Police Commissioner of Police, CP Olufimihan Adeoye, said the victim was
a 400-level Micro-Biology student of the University.
CP Adeoye said this while
parading the suspects at the Command’s headquarters in Oshogbo, adding that
they carried out the crime on June 26, 2017, at about 7:30 pm at Oke-Bale area
of the state capital.
He said the suspects conspired
and killed Shonibare by hitting him on the head with a pestle before cutting of
his head, two wrists and palms which roasted in a clay pot while the victim’s
remains were dumped in the bush.
According to him, friends of the
victim reported him missing on June 27 at 7:45 pm while the information
obtained from them led to the arrest of Abdulrofiu who is also an apprentice
herbalist, as well as his two accomplices.
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Ritual killing is becoming so much in Yoruba land among the Yoruba Muslim. Please FGN should. Review th at religion. It has become a blood sucking group than worshipping God.
ReplyDeleteYou talk as if you were just discharged from a psychiatric hospital. All the rituals, human parts found buried in various churches across the country you haven't been reading the stories
DeleteI bet if this should be Igbo men, some imbeciles in this forum will start running their cancer stricken mouth in hate, I thank God crime knows no tribe and evil is evil.
ReplyDeleteTrue,crime knows no tribe as you rightly said however in Nigeria each tribe kind of have speciality in the type of crimes.Yoruba Muslims are specialist in human rituals,hausas takes to terrorism while Igbos does hard drugs smuggling and baby factory
DeleteRituals,kidnapping, terrorist nor any forms of criminality does not peculiar to any tribes or religion. So don't let us argue on this barbaric criminality act. Let join together to condemned the act and pray to Almighty Allah for protection and intervene in the life of those have devilish act.
DeleteRituals,kidnapping, terrorist nor any forms of criminality does not peculiar to any tribes or religion. So don't let us argue on this barbaric criminality act. Let join together to condemned the act and pray to Almighty Allah for protection and intervene in the life of those have devilish act. STOP ARGUING
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