Pandemonium broke out in Oke Aregba area of Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, after some teenage boys were caught burning the head of a girl, said to be the girlfriend of one of them, for money ritual.
It was gathered that a security guard of the community, one Mr. Segun Adewusi, had observed on Saturday morning that some four boys were burning something suspected to be the human head in a local pot on the road.
Information available to CompassNG revealed that the security guard immediately alerted the police at Adatan Police Division, where detectives sent to the scene got three of the boys arrested, as one had fled before the police arrived.
A source, who pleaded anonymity confirmed the incident, saying that the slain girl, identified as Rofiat, was a resident of Idi-Ape; and was a girlfriend to one Soliu, who is now in police net.
Soliu was said to have lured the girl to his room, where he held her down and asked one of his friends to slaughter her with a knife.
A source said, “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.
“Soliu was the boyfriend of the girl, he ran away, but was later arrested.
“They killed Rofiat, cut her head, packed the headless body in a sack and started burning the head in a pot. They told the police in the presence of a mammoth crowd that they wanted to use it for money ritual.
“The police have taken the body away to a mortuar.”
In a video sighted by CompassNG, Mustakeem Balogun, said, “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 Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Abimbola Oyeyemi, confirmed the incident.
