An Islamic cleric, Amodu Jamiu, has been arrested for abducting a 15-year-old girl and attempting to use the girl for ritual purposes.
The 36-year-old cleric was arrested following a report lodged at Sango divisional headquarters by the victim.
The Ogun state police spokesman, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, in a press statement Friday, stated that while the victim was coming from her working place at about 5:30 pm, she was accosted by the suspect, who lured her into an uncompleted building after touching her with an object.
Oyeyemi further revealed that on getting to the building, the suspect stripped her naked and used a White handkerchief to rub her private part, as well as all over her body.
It, however, took the intervention of Good Samaritan, who, unknown to the suspect, was watching the whole incident that came to her rescue as she had become unconscious.
On interrogation, the suspect confessed that he has the intention of afflicting the victim with a sickness, which will enable him to extort her parents of a huge amount of money having successfully done it to two different persons in the past.
Meanwhile, the commissioner of police, CP Edward Awolowo Ajogun, has ordered the transfer of the case to the state criminal investigation and intelligence department for further investigation and possible prosecution.
