The life of a 4-year-old boy identified as Bakare Teslim, has been cut short by a ritual killer who beheaded him in his quest to make some quick money in Iragbiji, the headquarters of Boripe Local Government Area of Osun State.
Teslim was reportedly lured by 25-year-old suspect, Ganiyu Tajudeen, who promised him by telling him he wanted to buy some groundnuts for him only to behead and bury the head while he threw the body away
The operatives of Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad, (FSARS), Osun State Command arrested arrested Tajudeen, a member of a four-man gang of ritual killers,
An elderly woman who lived in the same compound with the deceased’s father disclosed that she saw the suspect going out of the compound with Teslim, but he (the suspect) denied having any knowledge of his (the deceased) whereabouts.
“I am a palm fruit cutter. The mother of the body came to my house to tell me that she would need my services to cut palm fruits, asking me to come the following day. But I went to her house at about 5.30p.m same day. I took the young boy with me, with the belief that no one noticed when he was going with me. I bought N20 worth of groundnut for him before taking him to my house at Iyana Olofa.”
Parading the suspected ritual killers identified as Aremu Moshood (48), Agboola Abdulwasiu (31) and Ganiyu Abidoye (60) and Ganiyu Tajudeen (25).
Abidoye further confessed that Moshood, had earlier asked him to bring the urine, blood and hair of a young boy when he went to him for money ritual and for protection, according to Tribune.
The suspect added that he went to Abdulwasiu for the same ritual and he also asked him to bring a boy.
Ganiyu also indicted his father, Abidoye, in his statement, saying that he was the one also told him to kill a boy and bury his body so that his acts would not be exposed.
The suspects would appear before an Osogbo magistrates court on a four-count charge of conspiracy, kidnapping, murder and unlawful and intentional killing.
The Magistrate B.B Idowu Ajao, ordered that the suspects be remanded in prison until Thursday, February 18, 2016 for the next hearing.
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