Teenagers arrested for slaughtering girl for money rituals in Ogun

The Ogun State Police Command has arrested for teenagers for allegedly killing an 18-year-old girl and cutting off her head for money rituals purposes.

The teenagers who are between 17 and 19, were caught in the Oke Aregba area of Abeokuta, the state capital, after a security man in the community caught them burning the head of the girl who was said to be in a relationship with one of the suspect.

According to information, in the early hours of Saturday, January 29, one Segun Adewusi, who is the community security guard, said he had observed that four boys were burning something suspected to be the human head in a local pot on the road.

The security guard immediately alerted the police at Adatan Division who went to the scene to get three of the boys arrested as one had fled before police arrived.

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A community source who confirmed the incident, said the slain girl identified as Rofiat, was a resident of Idi-Ape; she was a girlfriend to one of the suspects identified as Soliu.Ogun couple arrested for selling baby for N50k

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.

“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 mortuary,” the source said.

In the video, one of the teenaged suspects, Mustakeem 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.”