…Admits killing Barakat Bello
The Oyo State Police Command has paraded 19-year-old Sunday Sodipe and a herbalist, Adedokun Ajani, suspected to be behind several killings in the Akinyele area of Ibadan.
Sodipe said that he became an apprentice because he wanted to learn the herbal profession, but the herbalist sent him to kill, according to the Nation.
“I was taken to Baba to learn herbal work… he sent me away.
“Later, I went back to him to plead and remind him that I had been there earlier but he sent me away because I was too young to learn the work. He later agreed to take me in.
“Before I go out to kill anyone, I go to Baba. He would ask me to kneel down and close my eyes, and he would render some incantations on me.
“Afterwards, he would ask me to open my mouth and he would put something on my lips. He told me that whenever I hacked down my victims and there was blood, I should utter some incantations three times and walk round the dead body three times. He said during that period, a spirit would have intercourse with the victim. He said I should stay there for about five minutes.
“I told him that be difficult because I might not be able to escape if I stood there for five minutes. He told me that nobody would be able to enter as long as I am backing the dead body, and that nobody would be able to see me,” Sodipe said.
He confessed to killing Barakat Bello, the student of the College of Agriculture. Her murder and rape caused outrage across Oyo State.
“I am the one who killed Barakat Bello. I met her bending down and I hacked her with a shovel. When people rushed out, I was right there in their front but they could not see me.
“I have killed in Akinyele, L-Adisa and also around a church. I have killed in six different places. It is this year that I returned to Baba to beg him to start teaching me herbalist job.”
“Baba was the one sending me to kill, but he has never told me what he was doing with the victims. He would only ask me to go and before I came back, he would have bought me food and he would give me N500. But I don’t remove any part of their body. I also don’t rape them… I used shovel to kill my victims.”
However, Adedokun denied the allegations by Sodipe. Although he admitted that Sodipe was his apprentice, he denied sending him to go and kill.
“His mother brought him to me for treatment. He had learnt carpentry work. They said he was not focused or serious. I made them appeasement soap and they took it and left.
“After about two months, his mother and elder sister came back to me for him to learn herbalist job. I told them that anyone who would learn herbalist job should more matured because he was too young.
“I don’t know anything about all he was doing and all the killings. He only spent six days with me… He was with me some time and I usually send him food and I and my children would all eat the food. Then six days after he was with me, I sent him to buy us food and when he came back, I just called him and asked him to go away.
“…I only do herbal medicine for rheumatism, stroke and appeasement. I don’t do money rituals for anyone, I don’t know about it,” Adedokun said.
The Oyo State Commissioner of Police, Chucks Enwonwu, said the arrest of the suspects was a collaborative effort of the Command’s Tactical Teams.
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