Operatives of homicide unit of the Osun State Police command on Saurday exhumed the body of the final year sociology student of Lagos State University (LASU) who was murdered for money rituals at Ikoyi-Ile in Osun state.
The three principal suspects, her boyfriend, Adeeko Owolabi, his mother, Ruth Owolabi and a prophet of the Cherubim and Seraphim church, Segun Philip gave the gory details after police exhumed the victim’s dismembered body from a dry shallow well at Ikoyi-Ile.
Babatunde Kokumo, Osun commissioner of police, led detectives from the homicide section of the the command during the exhumation operation.
It was gathered that when the remains was exhumed, the head, the two breasts, neck and part of the two legs were missing.
Owolabi, also a graduate of LASU, told reporters during the operation that he conspired with Philip to murder her girlfriend for money rituals.
According to him, he lured the deceased to Ikoyi-Ile and lodged her in an hotel before murdering her moments after getting her drunk.
“After I lodged her in a guest house, I took her to a house which I claimed to be my uncle’s house, knowing fully well that the place was a ritualists den.
“I smashed a pestle on her head and she collapsed. The prophet thereafter used a knife and cutlass to dismember her body which was divided into three parts breasts, head and legs with other vital parts.
“We buried the remaining part of her body beside Prophet Philip’s Church called ‘Solution Salvation Chapel’, while some vital parts was given to my mother to eat for spiritual cleansing.”
Philip confessed that the deceased was murdered to make money rituals for Owolabi.
“I am not a prophet but a herbalist who engages in spiritual cleansing for whosoever come to my place,” he said.
“I used the Solution Salvation Chapel as a cover up not to allow people know the true picture of who I am and what I do.
“Owolabi came to my place for money rituals and I told him that we need a complete human being for the rituals.
“And on December 8, he brought his girlfriend to my church and we killed her and as well dismembered her body part for money rituals.”
Owolabi’s mother, Ruth, who also spoke with reporters, said she was not aware that the concoction given to her to eat and the cream was made of human part.
The police commissioner said detectives carried out thorough investigation to ascertain the actual place the deceased was buried, adding that the police would ensure that justice prevailed in the matter.
