Ogun state Police Command yesterday arrested one Nasiru Adeyemo and his wife Idayat Adeyemo over alleged attempt to use their seven-year-old girl, Abibat Anike Adeyemo, for rituals.
This was contained in a statement issued yesterday in Abeokuta by the Command’s Spokesman, ASP Abimbola Oyeyemi.
According to the statement, 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.
The Police image maker revealed that when the Divisional Police Officer, Owode Egba, CSP Shehu Alao, led his men to the scene, it was discovered that a seven- year-old girl was inside the tied sack.
Oyeyemi said the hapless girl was untied, given urgent medical attention and upon recovery of her consciousness, she offered information which led to the arrest of the suspects.
The statement read in part: “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 whose one of her right hand fingers has been cut off who was tied and put inside the sack and dumped at the road side since Friday.
“Having realised 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.
“The duo are currently undergoing interrogation. Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police Ahmed Iliyasu has ordered the transfer of the case to Anti-Kidnapping/Cultist section for further investigation and possible prosecution of the suspects.”
