- Safiu Kehinde
The Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin has on Thursday sentenced a killer boyfriend, Abdulrahman Bello, to death by hanging over the murder of Lawal Yetunde, a final-year student of Kwara State College of Education, for ritual purposes.
NPO Reported that the convict was on the 10th of February arrested by the police following the discovery of Lawal’s dismembered body at his residence.
Following his arrest, Bello had led the operatives to the room where he dismembered the student.
The bloodied table, machetes, and other tools he used in carrying out the act were seen littered around.
Also discovered were blood-stained bowls and buckets where he had put the dismembered body with one of the buckets containing the severed hands of the deceased.
Other parts of her decomposed body were later found at a nearby dumpsite in Ilorin.
During police interrogation, Bello had confessed to have met Yetunde on Facebook and had lured her to his house.
He disclosed how he had lured Yetunde from her friend’s naming ceremony to visit him at his residence where she was brutally murdered.
According to report, the convict, who resides in the Offa Garage area of Ilorin, was subsequently taken into custody along with four others accused of aiding him in committing the heinous crime.
However, the presiding judge, Justice Hannah Ajayi, discharged and acquitted the four other suspects.
The suspects which include 41-year-old Islamic scholar Ahmed Abulwasiu; 28-year-old Neo Life business operator, Sulaiman Muhydeen; 29-year-old phone repairer, Jamiu Uthman; and 31-year-old farmer AbdulRahman Jamiu were discharged by the court on account of the prosecution’s inability to prove the offence of conspiracy and their direct involvement in the crime.
In her judgment on Bello, Justice Ajayi described the killing of Hafsoh as cruel, wicked, and an extreme display of human wickedness.
She ruled that all evidence proved that Hafsoh was killed in order to be used for money ritual and trading in human spare parts.
The judge noted that Bello’s confession of love and plan to marry the deceased student were all concocted lies to lure her to his residence in order to kill her.