Dauda Bello, 54, has been detained by the Ogun State Police Command on suspicion of killing Mesesi Adisa, a woman in her nineties.
The suspect was charged with selling the wrists and ankles of his victim to a rumored ritualist.
The suspect was detained last Thursday, according to a statement released on Tuesday by the state’s police public relations officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi.
According to the PPRO, the victim abruptly vanished after leaving home on June 8, 2022, and not returning. A family member of the victim then filed a missing person complaint at the Sabo/Ilupeju police station.
He said, “The case was later transferred to the Anti-Kidnapping Unit of the State Criminal Investigation Department where technical and an intelligence-based investigation was embarked upon.
“In the course of the investigation, the SP Taiwo Opadiran-led team traced the last place visited by the victim to be the house of the suspect at Olodo area of Imala.
“The suspect was subsequently arrested and taken to custody for investigation.
“On interrogation, the suspect confessed to have known the victim for quite some time now, and that they were both into the business of children trafficking.
“He stated further that he invited the victim on that fateful day to discuss their usual business, but on getting to his house, he discovered that the victim came with what he thought was a huge amount of money.
“This made him hit the woman on the head with a heavy wooden stick, which made the woman be unconscious after which he carried the unconscious body of the victim to the bush where he finally snuffed life out of her.
“He confessed further that when he searched the woman’s body, he discovered that the victim only had the sum of N22,200 with her which he took with disappointment.
“Having realised that his aim of getting much money from the victim was in vain, he decided to cut off her two wrists and ankles, which he claimed to have been sold to somebody who is now at large.
“The suspect had taken the police to the bush where he buried the victim in a shallow grave, and the dismembered body had been recovered and deposited in the mortuary.”
However, the PPRO claimed that Lanre Bankole, the commissioner of police, who praised the team for a thorough work, had directed that the matter be brought before a judge as soon as the inquiry was finished.
Oyeyemi continued by saying that the Commissioner had also ordered that anyone who had a role in the matter, whether directly or indirectly, should be held accountable.
