Police have arrested three teenage boys who were caught burning the head of a girl for money ritual in Oke Aregba area of Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital.
The deceased identified as Rofiat was said to be in a relationship with one of the boys, Soliu, it was learned.
Soliu reportedly lured the girl to his room, where he held her down and asked one of his friends to slaughter her with a knife.
Police officers arrested the three teenagers in the early hours of Saturday following the tip-off by a security guard in the community.
The arrested suspects were identified as 17-year-old Wariz Oladeinde from Kugba, 19-year-old Abdulgafar Lukman from Kugba and Mustakeem Balogun from Bode Olude, all in Abeokuta.
In a video clip, Balogun, was heard saying, “We wanted to use just her head alone for money ritual. Soliu strangled her and he told me to assist him and we cut off her head.”
The spokesperson of Ogun Police Command, Abimbola Oyeyemi, confirmed the arrest in a statement.
Oyeyemi said, “Three young boys whose ages range between 17and 20 years were in the early hours of Saturday 29th of January 2022 arrested by men of Ogun State Police Command for killing a girlfriend of their friend for money making ritual.
“On interrogation, the arrested suspects confessed that what they were burning in the local pot is the head of the girlfriend of their escaped accomplice.
“They confessed further that the girl who was simply identified as Rofiat was lured by her boyfriend simply identified as Soliu to where she was murdered by four of them, after which they cut off her head and packed the remains in a sack, and dumped it in an old building.
“They subsequently led policemen to the building, where the dismembered body was recovered and deposited at general hospital mortuary for autopsy.
“The short cutlass and a knife used in cutting off the deceased head were also recovered.”
The Commissioner of Police, Lanre Bankole, according to Adeyemi, described the action of the suspects as height of callousness.
He said Bankole has ordered for a massive manhunt for the fleeing boyfriend of the victim by name Soliu.
“The CP also ordered the immediate transfer of the suspects to homicide section of the state Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department for discreet investigation with the view to arraign them in court as soon as possible,” he said.
