A 54 years old man, Dauda Bello, has been arrested by operatives of the Ogun State police command for killing one 71 years old Mrs Mesesi Adisa.
Bello cut off the victim’s wrists and ankles.
According to the spokesman of the command, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, Bellow was arrested on July 7, 2022 following the sudden disappearance of the victim, who left home since June 8, 2022 and didn’t return.
The relation of the victim reported a case of missing person at Sabo/Ilupeju police station.
The case was later transferred to anti-kidnapping unit of the state criminal investigation department where technical and intelligence based investigation was embarked upon.
In the course of investigation, SP Taiwo Opadiran-led team traced the last place visited by the victim to be the house of the suspect at Olodo area of Imala.
The suspect was subsequently arrested and taken to custody for investigation.
On interrogation, the suspect confessed to have known the victim for quite some time now, and that they were both into the business of children trafficking.
He stated further that he invited the victim on that fateful day to discuss their usual business, but on getting to his house, he discovered that the victim came with what he thought was a huge amount of money.
That, according to him, made him to hit the woman on the head with a heavy stick, which made the woman to be unconscious after which he carried the unconscious body of the victim to the bush where he finally sniffed life out of her.
He confessed further that when he searched the 71 years old woman’s body, he discovered that the victim only had the sum of N22,200.00 on her.
He said he took the money with disappointment.
Having realized that his aim of getting much money from the victim was in vain, he decided to cut off her two wrists and ankles, which he claimed to have been sold to somebody who is now at large.
The suspect had taken the Police to the bush where he buried the victim in a shallow grave, and the dismembered body had been recovered and deposited in the mortuary.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, CP Lanre Bankole, who commended the team for a thorough job has ordered that the case be charged to court as soon as investigation was concluded.
He also directed that anybody directly or indirectly involved in the case should be brought to book.
