The Ogun State Police Command has arrested one Nasiru Adeyemo and his wife Idayat Adeyemo for making an attempt to use a seven years old girl Abibat Anike Adeyemo, their daughter for ritual purpose.
The duo was arrested following a distress call from members of the public that a strange load in a sack was sighted by the road side at Asabala area along Papalanto/Sagamu road.
On the strength of the information, the DPO Owode Egba, CSP Shehu Alao led his men to the scene where the load which was inside a white rice sack was untied.
Surprisingly, it was a seven year old girl who one of her right hand fingers has been cut off, that was tied and put inside the sack and dumped at the road side since Friday 11th August 2017
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A statement signed by ASP Abimbola Oyeyemi, Command Public Relations Officer said, “Having realized that the girl is still alive, she was quickly taken to the hospital for medical attention.
“It was when she regained consciousness that she informed the Police that her father and step mother were the ones who cut off one of her fingers before tying her and put her inside the sack and dumped her inside the bush for her to die there.
“Upon the information from the victim, serious manhunt was launched for the father and his wife and they were arrested in the evening of Sunday 13th August 2017.
“The duo, are currently undergoing interrogation”, the Police said.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, Ogun State, CP Ahmed Iliyasu has ordered the transfer of the case to Anti-Kidnapping/Cultist section for further investigation and possible prosecution of the suspects.
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