The Ogun State Police Command has arrested
a 63-year-old man, Korede Odubela for
allegedly killing his 16-year-old stepdaughter,
Amudat Oshimodi, for ritual purposes. The
suspect was said to have connived with
another accomplice, Lekan Lawal, to commit
the crime at Imosan village, in the Odogbolu
Local Government Area of the state.
The two suspects were among the 12 suspects
paraded at the command headquarters,
Eleweran, Abeokuta, on Tuesday by the state
Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Iliyasu, for
various offences, including armed robbery,
burglary and stealing.
Iliyasu said Odubela, who was the leader of
the gang, connived with Lawal to strangle
Oshimodi, after which they sold her head and
hands to ritual killers.
The police commissioner said the men of the
Special Anti-Robbery Squad received
information about their activities and swooped
on them on Monday, November 7, 2016.
Odubela said he connived with Lawal to kill his
stepdaughter because the 16-year-old girl was
always stealing her mother’s money.
He said, “The mother said we should kill her
as a sacrifice for other children she had. She
(Oshimodi) normally slept by the outside door.
On that day, around 12 midnight, I invited
Lekan Lawal, and he held the girl by the neck
and strangled her while I held her legs.”
Odubela said he sold Amudat’s head to his
son, Seun, a herbalist who paid him N3,000,
as part payment.
However, Odubela’s wife, Fausat, denied
asking her husband to kill her daughter.
Iliyasu said the case was still under
investigation, while the corpse of Amudat had
been deposited at the morgue of the Ijebu Ode
General Hospital.
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