Credit: Police
A 15-year-old girl narrowly escaped being used for ritual by a self-professed Islamic cleric in Sango Ota, Ogun State on Friday.
The 36-year-old Islamic cleric, Amodu Jamiu was promptly arrested and detained by the operatives of Ogun State Police Command.
A statement issued in Abeokuta on Friday by the police spokesman, Mr. Abimbola Oyeyemi, said the cleric was arrested following a report lodged at Sango Division by the victim, who reported that she was accosted and lured to an uncompleted building after being hypnotised by the suspect while she was returning home from work around 5:30 pm.
According to Oyeyemi, the cleric took the girl to an uncompleted building, stripped her and rubbed a white handkerchief over her private parts and all over her body.
‘’It was a good Samaritan, who, unknown to the suspect, was watching the whole incident that came to her rescue as she has become unconscious.
‘’Upon the report, the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) Sango division, CSP Godwin Idehai, detailed his detectives to go after the suspect. He was subsequently traced and apprehended.
‘’On interrogation, the suspect confessed that he has the intention of afflicting the victim with a sickness, which will enable him to extort her parents of the huge amount of money having successfully done it to two different persons in the past.
‘’Search warrant was executed in his house, and dangerous charms were recovered from there.’’
The Ogun Police Spokesperson said the suspect would be transferred to the state criminal investigation and intelligence department for further investigation and possible prosecution.
