Men of Ogun State Police Command on Thursday paraded the suspected ritual killers who allegedly beheaded a four-year-old girl on Wednesday at Aiyetoro, Yewa North Local Government Area of the state


One of the suspects, Jimoh Owolabi, confessed to the crime, stating that he wanted to use the girl’s head for money-making rituals.


Owolabi, 30, and Akeem Ogunleye enticed Timilehin Abiona, their four-year-old neighbour, into Owolabi’s room where she was strangulated and subsequently taken to a nearby bush where she was beheaded.


The Commissioner of Police, Ogun State Command, Mr. Joseph Apapa, while parading Owolabi and the suspected herbalist who wanted to prepare the money-making ritual, Mr. Matthew Ogunleye, stated that the suspects were arrested by vigilant policemen on stop and search duty at Aiyetoro shortly after the crime was committed.


Akeem Ogunleye allegedly took to his heels when the police stopped them for interrogation about what they were carrying in a polythene bag.


Owolabi was also arrested after a hot chase. The mother of the girl, who just gave birth to twins, went into coma on hearing about the gruesome murder.


Arrested with Owolabi are the landlady of the house where the girl was murdered, Mrs. Anike Ogunleye, and Pa Samuel Ogunleye, who was said to have attempted to aid the escape of the herbalist.