One fleeing Soliu Majekodunmi has been arrested by the police in Ogun State over the murder of his girlfriend for money ritual.
Majekodunmi is 18 years old.
He was arrested on Saturday following the marching orders given to the Divisional Police Officer of Adatan Division in Abeokuta, Ogun State, Abiodun Salau, by the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Lanre Bankole, to that effect.
Earlier, three other suspects said to be Majekodunmi’s friend had been arrested by the police in connection with the ritual murder.
The others whose ages range between 17 and 20 years were also arrested on Saturday.
The suspect are 17 years old Wariz Oladehinde; 19 years old Abdul Gafar Lukman, and 20 years old Mustakeem Balogun.
They were arrested following an information received at Adatan divisional headquarters from the head of the community security guard that the suspects were seen burning something suspected to be human head in a local pot.
Upon the information, the D.P.O. of Adatan division, SP Abiodun Salau, quickly led his detectives to the scene where the three suspects were arrested, while the fourth one who happened to be the boyfriend of the murdered girl escaped.
On interrogation, the arrested suspects confessed that what they were burning in the local pot was the head of the girlfriend of their escaped accomplice.
They confessed further that the girl who was simply identified as Rofiat was lured by her boyfriend identified as Soliu to where she was murdered by four of them, after which they cut off her head and packed the remains in a sack, and dumped it in an old building.
They subsequently led policemen to the building, where the dismembered body was recovered and deposited at general hospital mortuary for autopsy.
The short cutlass and a knife used in cutting off the deceased head were also recovered.
The Commissioner of Police has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspects to homicide section of the state criminal investigation and intelligence department for discreet investigation with the view to arraigning them in court as soon as possible.
