The Ogun State Police Command has confirmed some teenage boys were caught burning the head of a girl, said to be in a relationship with one of them, for a money ritual.
The Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, has confirmed the incident which happened in Oke Aregba area of Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital.
The suspects were identified as 17-year-old Wariz Oladeinde from Kugba, 19-year-old Abdulgafar Lukman from Kugba and Mustakeem Balogun from Bode Olude, all in Abeokuta.
One Mr. Segun Adewusi, who is the community security guard in the early hours of Saturday, had observed that some four boys were burning something suspected to be the human head in a local pot on the road.
It was gathered that the security guard immediately alerted the police at Adatan station, who went to the scene and arrested the three of the boys while one had fled before police arrived.
It was further gathered that the slain girl, identified as Rofiat, was a resident of Idi-Ape; and a girlfriend to one Soliu, who is now in police net.
Soliu was said to have lured the girl to his room, where he held her down and asked one of his friends to slaughter her with a knife.
“They killed Rofiat, cut her head, packed the headless body in a sack, and started burning the head in a pot. They told the police in the presence of a mammoth crowd that they wanted to use it for a money ritual.
“The police have taken the body away to a mortuary,” a source said.
In a video, Mustakeem Balogun said, “We wanted to use just her head alone for a money ritual. Soliu strangled her and he told me to assist him and we cut off her head.
