The Osun State Police Command has arrested an Islamic cleric, Kabir
Ibrahim, for allegedly butchering a 25-year-old farmer, Lukman
Adeleke, and dumping his remains along the Akure-Ilesa Expressway.read here
The police said the cleric wanted to use his victim’s hand for a money
making ritual for another man. They are now both in police custody in
Osogbo.
A police source told Punch on Friday that Adeleke sold his cocoa and
made N300,000 from it and wanted to buy an uncompleted building with the
proceeds. But not wanting to invest the money without spiritual
guidance, the young farmer was said to have consulted Ibrahim, who is
also known as Akewusola, to pray for him.
Ibrahim allegedly asked the cocoa farmer to come with the whole
N300,000, promising to pray over the money. He said the young man would
also have to sleep over at his place for the prayer session. Continue…
He allegedly put up the farmer in a room where he later killed him while he slept.
To conceal his act, Akewusola dismembered the corpse and dumped the body parts packed inside a sack along the expressway.
The family of the young farmer was said to have become worried, when
they could not locate him for many days. They reportedly went to an
okada rider with whom he was last seen.
A Punch correspondent learnt that the okada rider took them to the
alfa’s residence and following rigorous questioning by the police , he
confessed.
However, before Akewusola dumped the victim’s body on the highway, he
was said to have removed the victim’s right hand, which he wanted to
use to do a money ritual for his client.
A police source told Punch, “He told them how he killed and butchered
the man. The alfa said he wanted to use the right palm of the deceased
for money ritual for another client. So he and the client were
arrested.”
The Police Public Relations Officer in Osun State, Mr. Ajigbade
Egbedele, confirmed the incident to our correspondent on the telephone.
“The case is still under investigation. We will do everything to get to
the root of the matter, We cannot say if he (alfa) actually butchered
him because the body was already decomposing as of the time we recovered
it but investigation would reveal everything,” the PPRO said.
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