By Wilson Adekumola
The Ogun Police Command has revealed how suspected ritualist, identified as Ifasoji Ayangbesan who was nabbed attempted to bribe policemen with N1 million over the killing of one Ms Oyindamola Adeyemi.
Daily Post reported that the victim was killed on January 28, 2023, by Ayangbesan and other members of a notorious ritualist syndicate.
The command’s Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, explained that some ritualists had killed and dismembered the body of Adeyemi, which they sold to some people.
While other suspects were arrested since January, 35-year-old Ayangbesan had been hiding, but he was arrested “following painstaking and intelligence-based investigation embarked upon by detectives from Obalende divisional headquarters.”
Oyeyemi disclosed that his colleagues, who were earlier arrested, had indicted him as “the one who bought the two legs of the 26-year-old victim,” so he escaped when he heard that he had been mentioned.
Since then, the DPO of Obalende division, SP Murphy Salami, and his detectives had been on manhunt for the fleeing suspect, with a view to arresting and prosecuting him with his colleagues in crime.
On April 28, Ayangbesan was apprehended at his Ijade Iloti hideout by the police.
Oyeyemi said “Immediately he was arrested, the suspect made an offer of one million naira bribe to the policemen, which was rejected,”
It was gathered that while the suspect was being questioned, he confessed being a member of “the syndicate that killed Oyindamola Adeyemi, and that he was the person who severed the two legs of the deceased which he claimed he used for ritual purpose.”
The Commissioner of Police, Olanrewaju Oladimeji, has, however, directed the transfer of the suspect to the State CIID for prosecution.
Oladimeji also hailed his men for demonstrating competence in their job.
