Ondo state police command has taken into the custody 3 men for the murder if a student of Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo. The men reportedly murdered the student for ritual purposes.
The men are: 20 year-old barber, John Adenitire; 30-year-old herbalist, Abdulrafiu Tijani, and Alfa Jamiu Kilani.
The Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr Gbenga Adeyanju, made this known while parading the suspect in Akure on Thursday.
One of the suspects, Adenitire who spoke with newsmen said his job was to be on the lookout for any intruder. He also revealed he was promised N3 million by Tijani’s younger brother.
“I was in my house when Tijani’s younger brother, Sile, came with his friend, and said that they needed a girl for money ritual and I told them that what they wanted to do was powerful and Sile said there was no problem.
“On the second day, Sile and his friend came to my house when I was smoking Indian hemp at the back of our house and said we should go and look for a girl, and I followed them.
“On our way going, we saw a girl with school bag on her back; we took her to the bush where Sile and his friend killed the girl while they asked me to be watching if anybody was coming.
“I don’t know what they took from the girl’s body that day but on the second day, I was told that they only cut her left breast and the left hand.
“The two guys said that the person that sent them is a rich man and has promised them N10 million.
“They promised to give me N3 million out of the money for the first operation while I was promised another big sum for the second operation but none of the money was given to me before I was arrested,” he said.
Tijani on his part said he was offeredN1million to take some parts of the deceased to a place.
“I am a herbalist and specialist on rheumatism and many other things but I don’t know how to do ritual money. I just helped Sile and Adenitire to take it to where they wanted to use it,” Tijani said