Anthony Iwuoma
The police in Ogun State have arrested a couple, and six others, including a herbalist, for allegedly killing a 26-year-old woman and harvesting her body parts.
The couple, Taiwo Olutufese Ajalorun and Salawa Oyenusi Ajalorun, alongside the co-accused reportedly kidnapped and killed their victim, one Oyindamola Adeyemi, and sold her body parts to ritualists.
Abimbola Oyeyemi, the Ogun State police spokesperson, named the other suspects, as Lukman Oladele, Kayode Ibrahim, Alebiosu Adebayo, Bello Akeem, Fatai Rasheed and Fatai Jimoh.
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Oyeyemi explained that they were arrested, following a report lodged at the Obalende divisional headquarters, Ijebu-Ode, by one Omolara Ojo, the victim’s friend, on December 28, 2022.
She reported that the victim had left home but failed to return, while her phone was switched off.
Oyeyemi said: “The following day, while the patrol team from Obalende division were on routine patrol, a dismembered body of a lady was discovered by the roadside and the body was taken to a mortuary.
“Fortunately, the mortuary is a stone’s throw distance away from the house of the deceased and one of the mortuary workers, who knew about the missing person, called the attention of the deceased’s family to come and have a look at the body brought in by the police.”
He added that Ojo was able to identify the body by her bra and underwear, since she had been beheaded.
Thereafter, the DPO of Obalende division, SP Murphy Salami, mobilised his men to embark on a technical and intelligence-based investigation, which led them to Taiwo Ajalorun, a herbalist, from whom the deceased’s Itel phone was recovered.
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It was further disclosed that a search warrant executed in the herbalist’s house unearthed a container of human blood, which was later identified as the deceased’s.
The herbalist was subsequently arrested, leading to the arrest of his friend, Oladele, in whose house the legs of the deceased were recovered.
The police spokesman further explained: “They both made confessional statements which led to the arrest of other suspects who are buyers of different parts of the deceased body.”
Taiwo Olutufese Ajalorun and Lukman Oladele reportedly confessed that the deceased was lured to the house of her boyfriend, Taiwo, but was strangled to death by both Olutufese and Oladele.
Thereafter, the suspects cut off her head, legs and two hands and sold them to their standby buyers, who needed them for money-making rituals.
“According to them, the legs were sold at the rate of N30,000, while the heart was sold at the rate of N50,000 to Akeem Bello, but the person who bought the head is still at large,” Oyeyemi added.
The suspects, Oyeyemi said, confessed further that the victim was the third they had killed in such a manner.
