Operatives of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested notorious serial killer, ritualist syndicate who killed, dismembered the body of one Oyindamola Adeyemi at Ijebu Ode.
Oyindamola was maimed by suspected ritualist earlier this year.
The state’s PPRO, Abimbola Oyeyemi while announcing the arrest of the suspect in a statement on Sunday said the suspect, identified as Ifasoji Ayangbesan, 35, was arrested based on paintaking intelligence based on investigation embarked upon by the operatives attached to Obalende Divisional Headquarters.
According to the image maker, other members of the arrested suspect had earlier been arrested.
“The suspect, 35-year old Ifasoji Ayangbesan, whose other members of his gang had earlier been arrested was apprehended following painstaking intelligence based investigation embarked upon by detectives from Obalende divisional headquarters, which led them to his hideout at Ijade Iloti area of Ijebu Ode.
“The suspect who has been indicted by the earlier arrested members of the syndicate as the person who bought the two legs of the victim, took to flight immediately he heard that he has been mentioned by his colleagues.
“Since then, the DPO Obalende division, SP Murphy Salami, has detailed his detectives to be on his trail with the view to arrest him and possibly recover the deceased two legs from him and prosecute him with his colleagues in crime.
“Luck however ran against him when he was apprehended at his Ijade Iloti hideout on the 28th of April 2023,” he said
According to Oyeyemi, immediately the suspect was arrested, he made an offer of one million naira bribe to the policemen, which was rejected.
“On interrogation, he confessed been part of the syndicate who killed Oyindamola Adeyemi, and that he was the person who severe the two legs of the deceased which he claimed he used for ritual purpose,” Oyeyemi quoted the suspect in his confessional statement
While commending his men for their uprightness, the state Commissioner of police, CP Olanrewaju Yomi Olademeji directed that the suspect be transferred to the state criminal investigation and intelligence department for proper prosecution alongside his other members.