A 63-year-old man, Korede Odubela, has
been arrested by the Ogun State Police Command for killing his
16-year-old stepdaughter, Amudat Oshimodi, for ritual purposes.
The suspect was said to have connived
with another accomplice, Lekan Lawal, to commit the crime at Imosan
village, in the Odogbolu Local Government Area of the state.
Iliyasu said Odubela, who was the leader
of the gang, connived with Lawal to strangle Oshimodi, after which they
sold her head and hands to ritual killers, because the 16-year-old girl was always stealing
her mother’s money.
He said, “The mother said we should kill
her as a sacrifice for other children she had. She (Oshimodi) normally
slept by the outside door. On that day, around 12 midnight, I invited
Lekan Lawal, and he held the girl by the neck and strangled her while I
held her legs.”
Odubela said he sold Amudat’s head to his son, Seun, a herbalist who paid him N3,000, as part payment.
However, Odubela’s wife, Fausat, denied asking her husband to kill her daughter.
Iliyasu said the case was still under
investigation, while the corpse of Amudat had been deposited at the
morgue of the Ijebu Ode General Hospital.
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