Ondo State police command has apprehended four men including a herbalist for allegedly kidnapped and murdered of a 25-year-old hunchback for money ritual. The suspects, according to report, had lured the hunchback man telling him that they had wooed a lady on his behalf and that he should accompany them to visit her.
The men had acted on the instruction from their herbalist who said they should look for a hunchback person and remove his hunchback and bring it for money ritual. The unsuspecting deceased had followed the young men from Ago-Alaye, a village near Araromi-Obu town in Odigbo Local Government Area of Ondo State to a forest near Oniparaga where he was murdered and his assailants later severed his chest and back and removed the hunch
The deceased’s father, Oladapo Dowo, said when he did not see his son, Adeoye, he reported the matter to the police at Ararom-Obu Police Station. In the course of police investigation, one of the suspects was arrested.
The suspect later confessed that Adeoye had been killed for money ritual. The suspect said two of his friends, now at large, had escaped with the hunch removed from Adeoye chest and back, adding that it was the herbalist who asked them to look for hunchback person when his gang contacted him for money ritual. However, the herbalist denied the allegation.
Briefing newsmen at the weekend, the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Sani Magaji, said the suspects were arrested following a report lodged at Araromi-Obu Police Station by the deceased’s father that his son with hunchback was missing. According to him, the Ore Police Division subsequently took over the matter, which led to the arrest of the suspects. One of them, he said, later confessed that he was responsible for the kidnap and led the police to the scene inside a forest where the decomposing body of the deceased was found.
Also arrested by the command was five-member of a robbery gang and four suspects who were Fulani that specialize in stealing cows in Akure and its environs. The robbery gang and their leader were said to have shot dead two police officers within the last one month during series of robbery operations in Ondo and Ekiti states.
Their recent operation took place along Emure/Eporo Road in Owo Local Government Area during which a police inspector was shot dead by the gang members.
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