Three teenage boys have been arrested in Oke Aregba area of Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital after they were caught burning the head of a girl for a money ritual.
A security guard in the area, Segun Adewusi, noticed in the early hours of Saturday that some four boys were burning something suspected to be the human head in a local pot on the road.
The security guard immediately contacted policemen at Adatan station, who went to the scene to get three of the boys arrested as one had fled before the police arrived.
A police source said the slain girl, identified as Rofiat, was a resident of Idi-Ape. She was a girlfriend to one Soliu, who is now in the police net.
Soliu was said to have lured the girl to his room, where he held her down and asked one of his friends to slaughter her with a knife.
“The arrested suspects were identified as 17-year-old Wariz Oladeinde from Kugba, 19-year-old Abdulgafar Lukman from Kugba and Mustakeem Balogun from Bode Olude, all in Abeokuta. Soliu was the boyfriend of the girl, he ran away, but was later arrested.
“They killed Rofiat, cut her head, packed the headless body in a sack and started burning the head in a pot. They told the police in the presence of a mammoth crowd that they wanted to use it for money ritual.
“The police have taken the body away to a mortuary,” a source told Daily Post on Saturday.
In a video, Mustakeem Balogun, said, “We wanted to use just her head alone for money ritual. Soliu strangled her and he told me to assist him and we cut off her head.”
The Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, has confirmed the incident.
