Crime

Police Nab UNIPORT Student for Alleged Ritual Killing of Lover

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Rivers State Police Command has paraded one Damian Okoligwe, a 400-level student of Petroleum Engineering, University of Port Harcourt, UNIPORT, for allegedly killing his 20-year-old ex-lover for money ritual.

The suspect had reportedly killed, dismembered and sacked the body of his former girlfriend, Justina Otuene, a 300-level student in the Department of Bio-Chemistry, in the same institution.

The killing was reported at Ozuoba Police Station, by one of Damian’s neighbours, at Mgbu Oba Town, Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of the state, under the division’s jurisdiction.
Addressing newsmen in Port Harcourt yesterday, the state Commissioner of Police, Nwonyi Emeka, informed that the sad incident was exposed by a neighbour to Damian, who had gone to the suspect’s backyard and was hit by offensive odour. He reported his experience to the police in Ozuoba.

Emeka said: “On Wednesday, 25/10/23 at about 3.30 pm, operatives of Ozuoba Division received a complaint from a good Samaritan and neighbour of Road 20, back of NTA Ozuoba.
“On Wednesday, at about 2 pm, the neigbour went to his house where one Damian Okoligwe, a fellow tenant lives and had perceived a very offensive odour.

“He immediately reported the issue at the police station, where the DPO led detectives to the scene.

“On arrival, the door was forcibly opened, and a Ghana must-go bag containing a dismembered lifeless body was recovered. The body was taken to the station and a search for the fleeing suspect and boyfriend of the deceased, one Damain Okoligwe (24), a petrochemical engineering 400 level student of UNIPORT’s boyfriend of the victim, occupant of the house, now the prime suspect, seen last with the deceased began He was eventually found and arrested for an inquiry.

“The lifeless and butchered body of Justina Otuene (20), a biochemistry 300-level student at UNIPORT, was recovered and deposited at the mortuary.

“Preliminary investigation is in progress. The case has been transferred to SCID for discreet investigation.”

In another development, the Commissioner of Police announced the rescue of four children already abducted and sold by suspected child traffickers.

Vanguard/Simeon Ugbodovon

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Bizarre: Man Tries Using Teen Son for Rituals to Raise Other Children

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A 50-year-old Beninese farmer, Poni Bada, left his country home for Nigeria, with his unsuspecting nine-year-old son, who he intended to use for money rituals.

Three other men: Ige Koselu, Benjamin Balovi and Segun Shile, accompanied the farmer to a herbalist’s home in Owode area of Ogun State, where the money ritual was to be carried out.

The trio contributed N100,000 needed to start the ritual process, with an agreement to have their share of the loot when the ritual is successful and money start to roll in.

But that was not to be, as a team of policemen from the Zone 2 Command, Onikan Lagos, who acted on intelligence, stormed the herbalist’s shrine and effected the arrest of all the suspects, while the would-be sacrificial lamb was rescued.

Vanguard learned that the nine-year-old boy, Agbe, was brought from Benin Republic in May, 2023, to work in a farmland where he was paid N5,000.

A month after, his father was said to have called his contact in Nigeria, Benjamin Balobi, complaining that the money paid to his son was too small compared to the farm work.

Father speaks

Explaining how he came up with the idea of using his son for money rituals, the father of the boy, Bada, said: “I have 10 children from three wives.

“The situation of things kept going from bad to worse. I could not feed my children. I then decided to use my last child, Agbe, for a money ritual, so that I could train the other children and have better living conditions.

“In May 2023, I left my home town in Jakotome, Benin Republic for Nigeria, to visit my brother, Benjamin Balobi, at Ilaro, Ogun State, who earlier told me he was doing well as a farmer and that the owner of a farmland was looking for labourers.

“That was how I brought Agbe to Nigeria to work.

“But the thought of using him for a money ritual came up when I realized that the money paid as salary to my son was very poor.

“I told Balobi to help me get a herbalist that would help me with the money rituals; he said he knew no one but promised to help me find a herbalist who might have information on it.

“He informed Ige Koshelu (one of the suspects) who found someone that promised to take us to the herbalist’s place in Sango. But we were taken to another herbalist’s place in Owode, where we were arrested.”

The deal

Also speaking, one of his accomplices, Segun Shile, a commercial motorcyclist, said four herbalists earlier contacted declined engaging in money rituals sacrifice.

He expressed regrets, saying, “If I had known, I would have withdrawn. We were warned by the herbalist I took them to at Owode, Ogun State, not to use the boy.

“When I called the herbalist on the phone, he said there was nothing like money rituals. Few days later, he invited me to bring the person that would be used for the rituals.

“Immediately he sighted the boy, he stated categorically that the child’s head was too strong to be used for rituals.

“He, however, demanded N100,000 to take to another herbalist who would perform the rituals.

“Three of us: Balobi, Koshelu and myself, who accompanied the father of the boy there, then went outside to discuss how to raise the money.

“Balobi brought N50,000, and Koshelu and I added N25,000 each. We told the boy’s father not to pay since he was donating his son for the ritual.

“The agreement was for him to give us out of what would come out of the process. When we handed the money to the herbalist, he picked up his phone and called someone. To our surprise, the next thing we saw were policemen.”

Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Zone 2, Command, AIG Muhammed Ali who confirmed the arrest of the suspects and rescue of the minor, said the latter would be taken to a juvenile home at the end of investigation.

Vanguard/Simeon Ugbodovon

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Police Arrest Two ‘Yahoo Boys’ who allegedly Killed Man for Ritual

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Operatives of Ogun state Police Command have arrested two suspected internet fraudsters popularly known as yahoo Boys for killing a 40 year old man Abdullahi Azeez , for ritual.

The suspects including Friday Odeh and Poso Idowu were arrested following a report lodged at Owode Egba divisional headquarters by  the relations of the victim, who reported that the victim left his home at Kobape area of the state and did not return since then.

According to a statement by the state Police Public Relations Officer, Mr Abimbola Oyeyemi in Abeokuta, the anti kidnapping unit of the state Criminal Investigation Departments have been directed by the Commissioner of Police, Mr Lanre Bankole,  to take over the investigation and unravel the mystery behind the sudden disappearance of the man.

He explained that the police embarked on technical and intelligence based investigation which led them to the hideout of one of the suspect Friday Odeh where the sim card of the victim was recovered while His arrest also led to the apprehension of his accomplice Poso Idowu.

Mr Oyeyemi noted that the suspects confessed that they kidnapped the victim and forcefully took him to the bush, killed him and cut him into pieces.

The PPRO said all efforts to recover the remains of the victim proved abortive as the suspects claimed to have disposed it, adding that the suspects would be charged to court as soon as investigation was concluded on the directive of the Commissioner of Police, Mr  Lanre Bankole.

Olajumoke Idowu 

Crime

Alleged Grave-Robbing Bricklayer, Parents, Flee Ola Town

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It would have been a perfect job had the suspect not attempted to “perfect” the job.

The story started on Saturday when some residents of Ola, in Ejigbo Local Government area of Osun State noticed suspicious movements in a Baptist cemetery in the town.

The suspicion, according to a source, made the people curious about the cemetery and  this led to the discovery of a man identified as Wuyi Olatunbosun who was allegedly covering up some graves.

A source who is a local security officer, Chief Segun Odejimi told  Radio Nigeria that Wuyi promptly attempted to flee the scene the moment he noticed people’s attention had been drawn to him but his escape was caught off by the pursuing eagle-eyed residents.

“I saw about four guys bringing him, I asked them of his crime, they told me that he was caught digging some graves, so we took him to the police station in Ola but no officer was there”, Chief Odejimi said.

“We later took him to the scene in company of his parents where we all confirmed the graves had been disturbed. His parents pleaded for leniency but the pleas fell on the deaf ears of the people.”

We decided to take him to Ejigbo Divisional Police Headquarters, but his parents struggled with us, it was about getting rowdy because the youths were already warming up to dispensing jungle justice, so we went to Ejigbo Police Station. Upon our return with the DPO and DCO, the suspect had escaped!

“By the time we mobilised to their house, both the parents and the suspect had fled” Chief Odejimii explained.

He explained further that it took the intervention of the Ejigbo Divisional Police Officer, DPO, Mr Taye Awodi to prevent the angry youths from setting the suspects’ house ablaze.

Another source who did not want his name mentioned, said Wuyi who is a bricklayer in his midthirties, had exhumed about five gravesites and harvested some body parts overnight but luck ran out on him when he came back in daylight to tidy up the scene.

He explained that the bodies exhumed were remains of known people in the town.

In an informal chat, a police source hinted that the police was aware of the crime and had put mechanisms in place to arrest the suspect.

Adedayo Adelowo

Security

Couple, Two Others Apprehended for Alleged Possession of Human Skull

By Web News 612

The Ogun state Police command have arrested a couple Niyi and Remilekun Folorunso and two others, Muyideen Tolubi and a herbalist, Sonubi Taiwo, for being in possession of a suspected human skull.

The state Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, in a statement said the four suspects were arrested last Thursday following information received by the police that the suspects were digging a grave in Odogbolu.

According to him, the DPO Odogbolu division, CSP Afolabi Yusuf based on intelligent information, led his detectives to the scene but the suspects had already removed the head of the corpse and left.

The three of the suspects confessed to being the persons that dug the grave and decapitated the corpse and later took the detectives to Ikenne, where the fourth person who asked them to bring the head for ritual purpose was apprehended.

DSP Oyeyemi said the state Commissioner of Police, Edward Ajogun, had ordered the immediate transfer of the suspects to the state Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department for further investigation and prosecution.

Modupeola Sobukonla