OOU undergraduate, girlfriend murdered in Ogun
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| Ogun State Police Commissioner, Ahmed Iliyasu |
A 300-Level
Computer Science undergraduate of the Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago
Iwoye, Adebisi Oriade and his girlfriend, Julia Imaga, also a diploma student
at the same institution, have been allegedly killed by two members of Aiye
confraternity, Muritala Babatunde and Taiwo Razak.
The Ogun State
Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Iliyasu, disclosed this at the state
police headquarters in Eleweran, Abeokuta, on Friday while parading no fewer
than 25 suspects arrested for various offences ranging from armed
robbery, cultism, to stealing and rape.
Parading the two
major suspects among other suspected criminals, Iliyasu said one of the
brothers of Adebisi, Oriade Adeola, had on June 3, 2018, reported to the police
that he (Adebisi) had left home since May 28, 2018 with his girlfriend in
his car, a Honda Crosstour with the number plate, FST 350 FA, but had yet
to return.
He said on the
receipt of the complaint, the men of the Inspector-General of Police
Intelligence Response Team, in collaboration with the operatives of the state
command embarked on technical intelligence.
He said this led
to the arrest of the two suspects, from whom an iPhone X and two pairs of
sneakers belonging to Adebisi were allegedly recovered. Iliyasu further said
the suspects, on interrogation, confessed that they killed Adebisi and
his girlfriend.
He said, “They
said they lured the victims to a junction at Oru Ijebu, where they were
forcefully taken to a nearby bus and they smashed their heads with planks and
gun.”
He said the
decomposing bodies of the deceased had been recovered and deposited in
the mortuary at the State General Hospital, Ijebu Ode.
While speaking
with journalists, Muritala Babatunde confirmed that he belonged to Aiye
cult and that he and two other accomplices killed the victims.
He alleged that
he and the late Adebisi were friends and they had a deal relating to an
Internet fraud in which over N2m was involved.
He further
claimed that Adebisi, despite many calls and entreaties, refused to give him
his own share.
He said, “He
refused to pick my calls and I stopped calling him. On May 28,
2018, I got two other men to join me and we abducted Adebisi and his
girlfriend.
“He belonged to
Alora cult. He and members of his group were threatening me, so we later killed
him and his girlfriend by using planks.”
When asked why
they killed Adebisi’s girlfriend, he replied, “it was just to cover our track.”
Adebisi’s
father, Adedeji Oriade, however, denied the allegations made by Muritala,
that his son was a cult member and an Internet fraudster.
He said,
“My son was never a cultist or an Internet fraudster. The suspect,
Babatunde Muritala, kept going back and forth. He was quoted to have said that
my late son used to help him with money but suddenly he (my son) stopped and
became arrogant and that was why he killed him.”
Julia’s
mother, Mrs Olamma Ofor, who wept during the parade of the suspects, was
too distraught to talk to journalists.
Other suspected
ritual killers, armed robbers and rapists arrested in various locations in the
state were equally paraded.
Iliyasu also
disclosed that five police inspectors, seven sergeants and seven corporals
serving in the state have been dismissed between July 2016 and June this year
for various offences.
He added that
two inspectors, five sergeants and two corporals were demoted in ranks while 11
others were seriously reprimanded within the same period.
He revealed that
four were arraigned after dismissal.
Iliyasu said the
disciplinary measures were taken against the affected officers to impress it
further in the consciousness of people that “no erring policeman will ever go
unpunished.”
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