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Photo: Samuel Awoyinfa
Ogun prophet,
accomplice kill girl
for ritual
Samuel Awoyinfa
Abeokuta
A
self-acclaimed prophet
of a white garment
church in the Sagamu
area of Ogun State, Kehinde
Onayiga, has been arrested
by the state police command
for the alleged killing of a
13-year-old girl, Anuoluwapo
Ajisafe, for ritual purposes.
The suspect was arrested
together with an accomplice,
Musiliu Jibril, who allegedly
lured the victim into
Onayiga’s church where she
was killed.
Onayiga and Jibril were
among 56 suspects paraded
by the Ogun State Police
Command at the command’s
headquarters in Eleweran,
Abeokuta, on Thursday,
for offences bordering on
ritual killing, kidnapping,
cultism, armed robbery,
impersonation, among
others.
Jibril told journalists that it
was Onayiga who contracted
him to source for a female
virgin, adding that she was
to be used with some fetish
materials for some Internet
fraudsters (Yahoo boys).
He said, “I was able to lure
the girl because she and her
mother trusted me. It was
the prophet (Onayiga) that
contracted me to get a female
virgin for ritual. He told me
he wanted to prepare some
charms for some Yahoo boys.
“I delivered the girl to him
in his church at Sagamu
and he promised to pay me
N20,000. I am yet to get the
money.”
Onayiga, who was dressed
in his religious regalia while
holding two goat horns
wrapped in red cloths, denied
the allegation.
He said, “It is a lie; he did
not deliver any girl to me in
my church.”
Onayiga said he trained
under an Islamic cleric
before leaving to start a
white garment church.
Asked what he used the
fetish-looking goat horns for,
he responded, “I use them to
pray for those brought to my
church for healing.”
PUNCH Metro gathered
that Anuoluwapo went
missing on June 21, 2017,
and her whereabouts had
remained unknown till date.
Another suspect paraded
for murder was one Bakare
Olalekan, who was alleged
to have killed a 16-year-old
girl, Olayinka Adebayo, in the
Ijebu area.
He was said to have sold
her heart to a ritual killer.
Our correspondent
gathered that four members
of the syndicate were already
in police custody, while
Olalekan had confessed to
selling two human hearts to
one of them.
The suspect said he bought
one of the human hearts for
N10,000 from a friend called
Oye.
Also arrested were a
mother, Mulika Alaba, and
her 16-year-old daughter,
Olamide Saliu, who allegedly
dealt in Indian hemp.
Items recovered from them
included a bag of the drug.
Eight suspected
vandals, who specialised
in vandalisation of
telecommunications masts
across the state, were also
paraded.
The police said items
stolen from a mast site,
belonging to one of the
telecommmunications
companies in Owode-Egba
area of the state, were
recovered.
Also, four suspected
kidnappers, who operated
along Siun-Sagamu
interchange and Sapade-
Ogere area, were nabbed,
while three pump-action
guns, seven live cartridges,
and four expended cartridges,
were reportedly recovered
from them.
The Ogun State
Commissioner of Police,
Ahmed Iliyasu, said in a
bid to curtail criminality in
the state, the command had
de