A 32-year-old suspected ritual killer, Adebayo Olamide Azeez, disclosed on Thursday how he lured seven women through a dating app, “mychat,” and killed them for ritual purposes.
The suspect confessed to being a member of a ritualist gang that specialised in killing women and selling their body parts for money.
He was paraded in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital.
Osun Defender reports that members of the gang, whose names were given as Moses Abidemi Awuraji, Oluwo Samuel Monday, Peter Oluwalolese, Jamiu Yusuf, Akinwunmi Ifatosin, Sheriff Agbai, and Osojieahen Alioneitouria, had earlier been paraded by operatives of the Ogun State Command.
They were all arrested in connection with the alleged killing of a 35-year-old woman, Sulaimon Adijat, for ritual purposes.
Adebayo, who was arrested by the police last week after being on the run for some time, said he joined the gang in September last year and has participated in the killing of seven women.
While parading the suspect, the Commissioner of Police in the state, Abiodun Alamutu, said he was arrested from his hideout.
Alamutu said the suspect conspired with Moses Abidemi Awuraji, a herbalist, to kill the victims for a money ritual.
“The suspects strangulated their victims to death, dismembered their body parts, and sold them to Oluwo Monday Samuel and Alfa Ariwo (who is still at large) for ritual purposes.
“The three suspects confessed to the killing of ten different ladies at the Igbo Olomi residence of Moses Abidemi,” Alamutu said.
Narrating how he lured and killed the victims, Adebayo said, “I got the ladies from MyChat, which is a hookup app. I just told them that I wanted to hook up with them whenever Moses Abidemi Awuraji contacted me that they needed human body parts.
“They will call me that they need body parts, I will go on the app and chat the ladies for hookup. I don’t know the ladies before, we don’t have any conversations before, I only talk to them on the app. I ask if they are available and we negotiate on the amount they want to collect, when we reach an agreement, I will send my address to them and they will come over to me at Atan-Ota.
“I will pick them up and call Moses Abidemi Awuraji that they are around, I will then take them to Moses Abidemi Awuraji’s house in Igbo Olomi, Atan-Ota and inside his sitting room we will kill them.
“Abidemi’s wife (Awuraji Mariam) will pin their legs down while I strangle them.
“I joined the gang in September of 2023 and we have killed seven ladies. These are the ladies that I brought to the house that we killed.
“I don’t know what they use the corpses of the ladies for, my job is just to source for the ladies and bring them in. They don’t usually tell me the amount they will give, at times, they will pay me N30,000, and other times, they will give me N40,000.
“I can’t say no to them whenever they ask me to bring the ladies. I don’t know who they sell the body parts to and I don’t ask them about it, my own is just to source the ladies and collect my money.”
Kazeem Badmus is a graduate of Mass Communication with years of experience. A professional in journalism and media writing, Kazeem prioritses accuracy and factual reportage of issues. He is also a dexterous finder of the truth with conscious delivery of unbiased and development oriented stories.
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