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Police exhume four corpses from septic tank, arrest suspects

David Adenekan
David Adenekan
Police rescue 15 persons chained in prayer house, arrest prophet, others
Lagos C.P. Zubairu Mu'azu

No fewer than four corpses were exhumed from a septic tank in Ikorodu area of Lagos State by operatives of the Lagos State Police Command.

This is as three persons have been arrested in connection with the dumping of the bodies in the tank.

The bodies were recovered in the course of investigation into how two operators of a bureau-de-change got missing, a case which was reported to the police on March 14, 2019.

The discovery of the corpses and arrest of suspects were made public on Thursday by the  spokesman of the Lagos State Police Command, Mr. Bala Elkana.

The statement reads in part:  “On March 14 at about 5:30p.m., the Lagos State Police Command received a complaint from Ikorodu area that some unidentified persons approached one Alhaji Yakubu Musa and Alhaji Hassan Umaru.

“Both are operators of Bureau de Change at Benson area, Ikorodu, and informed them that they have a relation who returned from overseas and need to sell $10,000.

“They initially requested that payment will be made in a bank at Ikorodu but on getting to the bank, the suspects moved the operators to an unknown destination and started demanding for ransom from their friends and relatives.

“That despite paying the sum of One Million, Six Hundred Thousand Naira (N1,600,000) as ransom, the abductors refused to release the victims and nothing more was heard from them. The victims phones remained switched off.

“The Commissioner of Police Lagos State, CP Zubairu Muazu mni, detailed the Commander, Special Anti Robbery Squad (SARS), to carry out an in depth investigation into the matter with a view to rescue the victims and apprehend the suspects.

“Operatives from SARS Ipakodo base led by SP Godfrey Soriwei arrested three suspects, namely; Oluwatosin Olanrewaju, Mayowa Olawuni a.k.a General and Babatunde Idris a.k.a Aloma.

“The suspects confessed to the commission of the crime and led operatives to their den at Ikorodu where they dumped the corpses in a septic tank.

“Two locally made single barrel guns with five live cartridges, one locally made gun with three ammunition, one locally made revolver pistol with three live ammunition, one cutlass, one axe and some charms were recovered from them.

“Investigation revealed that the suspects had at various times used an abandoned company as their den, where all their targets are killed and dumped in the sceptic tank.”

While stating that the decomposed bodies of the persons were recovered for autopsy, the police spokesman said those arrested had told the police that two of the bodies recovered were those of members of a rival cult.

He added that the suspects were already helping the police in the bid to arrest other members still at large.

“Investigation is ongoing, suspects will be charged to court as soon as investigation is completed,” Elkana said.

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