Saturday, January 29, 2022, is a day residents of Oke-Aregba, Itoko-Tuntun, Idi-Ape and Isoka in Abeokuta, Ogun State, will always remember. It was the day a 20-year-old lady, Sofiat Kehinde, was gruesomely murdered and her head severed for money ritual by four teenagers.
There have been killings in the state for ritual but Saturday’s incident attracted attention and sympathy considering the ages of the perpetrators.
Four teenage suspects; Soliu Majekodunmi; 18, Wariz Oladehinde, 18; Abdulgafar Lukman, 19, and Balogun Mustaqeem, 20; conspired to kill Kehinde and played different roles in her murder. Her skull was severed in her lover, Majekodunmi’s room and burnt almost to ashes.
Fortunately, the suspects were apprehended by security men in the area after they got wind that the teenagers were engaging in something sinister in a building located at Isale-Ijade, Oke-Aregba. The state police spokesperson, Abimbola Oyeyemi, stated that the teenagers were caught and arrested with the severed, half-burnt skull of Sofia in a mud pot and her remains already packed in a sack, ready to be thrown away.
Oyeyemi said the policemen at Adatan Divisional Headquarters received information from the head of the community security guard that some suspects were seen burning something suspected to be a human head in a mud pot.
He said three of them were arrested by a team led by the DPO, Adatan Division, SP Abiodun Salau, who raced to the scene and later arrested the fourth person, Majekodunmi, after he escaped.
He added that the suspects upon interrogation confessed that the human skull they burnt belonged to Majekodunmi’s girlfriend.
