A 39-year-old fruit seller, Dolapo Babalola, has narrated how he killed his cousin and four others for rituals at Okeigbo, in Ile-Oluji/Okeigbo Local Government Area of Ondo State.
Babalola, who was paraded
alongside 18 other suspected criminals, confessed that he used their body parts
for rituals.
His herbalists and accomplices
were also paraded by the police at the police headquarters in Akure, the state
capital.
In an interview with newsmen,
the suspect narrated how he killed his victims and disembered their bodies for
rituals.
The suspect said he always
attack motorcyclists by snatching their bikes from them and thereafter, killed
them when his victims recognise him. He said he attacked his victims with stone
and stick whenever they recognise him after dragging their motorcycles with
them.
The suspect, who confessed that
he had been in the illicit business since 2021, said they carried out their
operations within the town and the neighbouring states.
Babalola said: “I have killed
five persons, including my cousin and my friend and snatched their motorcycles.
I killed Opeyemi, who was my friend and sold the motorcycle to one man at
Ibadan called Toheed.
“I do not sell human parts but
I took part of one of my victims’ bodies to an herbalist in Ondo, who promised
to give me an Ifa Oracle.
“At the point where we snatch
motorcycles, anyone who struggles with me in the process gets hit on the head
with a big stone and a stick.”
Parading the suspects, the
state Commissioner of Police, Abayomi Oladapo, said: “Sequel to the arrest of
one Babalola Daniel, who led police detectives to a shallow grave at Okeigbo
where the corpse of Opeyemi Oyelakin, a commercial motorcyclist was exhumed,
other suspects have been arrested in connection with the case.
“Further investigation revealed
that the suspect had killed four persons in various locations and stole their
motorcycles.
“In April 2023, he killed a
motorcyclist in Kabba, Kogi State and Ife along Ilesha road in Osun State,
removed some parts from the corpse for rituals.
“In June 2023, he killed
another motorcyclist at Ondo town and dumped the corpse in a farm at Oboto bush
along Bolorunduro road, Ondo town while in October 2023, the suspect and one
Sikiru Mutiu aka S.K deceived his childhood friend by name Joel Olagoke to take
them with his motorcycle to a location where he was killed, his body
dismembered and handed to herbalists: Mujeeb Lawal and Shina Ojo (both in
police custody), for rituals
“The duo of Abiola Toheeb and
Ayegbajeje Michael, who are receivers of stolen items and one Oyediran Olaitan,
who helped in the production of fake documents to aid the selling of the stolen
motorcycles have been arrested.
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