Monday, May 6, 2024 - Men of the Ondo state police command have arrested a middle-aged man identified as Dolapo Daniel Babalola for killing his childhood friend, Opeyemi Oyelakin, before stealing his motorcycle.
According to the police, Babalola said he
sold the motorcycle in Ibadan and went on to dismember Opeyemi’s body part,
selling it to ritualists in Ibadan, Oyo state capital.
The suspect also confessed to killing his
cousin and three others but said he could not confirm if all his victims
died after hitting them with sticks or stones before stealing their
motorcycles.
Police investigations revealed that
Babalola also operated in Kabba, Kogi where he killed an Okada rider and killed
another victim in Ife along Ilesha road in Osun state in April 2023.
‘’In June 2023, he killed another
motorcyclist at Ondo town and dumped the corpse at a farm at Oboto bush along
Bolorunduro road, Ondo town while in October 2023 the suspect and one Sikiru
Mutiu aka S.K killed his childhood friend, dismembered his body and handed them
to herbalists identified as Mujeeb Lawal and Shina Ojo for rituals.
The duo of Abiola Olatunji Toheeb and
Ayegbajeje Micheal who are receivers of stolen items and one Oyediran Waheed
Olaitan who helps in the production of fake documents to aid the selling of the
stolen motorcycles have been arrested." the statement read
Babalola on his part, said;
‘’''Seven motorcycles have been retrieved
from the receivers while one suspect is still at large. I have killed five
persons including my cousin and my friend, and snatched their motorcycles. I
killed Opeyemi who is my friend, and sold the motorcycle to one man at Ibadan
called Toheed. I do not sell human parts but I took part of one of my victims’
bodies to an herbalist in Ondo who promised to give me an Ifa Oracle. At the
point where we snatched motorcycles, anyone who struggled with me in the
process got hit on the head with a fat stone and a stick.The herbalists said
they used the body parts to prepare spiritual soap.''
The police also arrested one Adetokunbo
Adesina, who claimed to have been hired to kill over 500 persons, after
collecting N110,000 from his victim. According to police investigation,
Adetokunbo claimed to have been assigned by the three members of staff of the
victim who hired him to kill her.
“Out of fear, the victim sent the sum of ₦110,000 to the account forwarded to her. Through Technical assistance, he was arrested. But the suspect claimed he was sick and needed money to carry out a surgical operation and decided to use the threat as a means to extort the victim because she refused to employ him in her pure water factory.”
Similarly, the Ondo Police
Commissioner, Peter Abayomi, said a 30-year-old man, Abdullahi Fatai, who was
suspected of having killed his wife, was also arrested.
“Preliminary investigation revealed that
the suspect and his wife Olayode Morenike (late) had always quarreled over the
issue of going to check on her child in her former marriage. The suspects after
killing the deceased took pictures of the body and locked the corpse in the
house till late night before raising an alarm.”
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