A suspected ritual killer, Adebayo Olamide Azeez, on Thursday revealed how he lured seven ladies by way of a relationship app, “mychat” to their premature demise for ritual functions.
Azeez, 32, confessed to being a member of a ritualist gang which specialised in killing ladies and promoting their physique components for cash rituals.
Operatives of the Ogun State Police Command had earlier arrested and paraded members of the gang, particularly, Moses Abidemi Awuraji, Oluwo Samuel Monday, Peter Oluwalolese, Jamiu Yusuf, Akinwunmi Ifatosin, Sherifff Agbai and Osojieahen Alioneitouria.
They had been all arrested for allegedly killing a 35-year-old lady, Sulaimon Adijat, for cash ritual.
Azeez, who had been on the run, however was later arrested by the police, mentioned he joined the gang in September final yr and has participated within the killing of seven ladies.
He spoke when suspected criminals had been paraded by the state Commissioner of Police, Abiodun Alamutu.
Alamutu mentioned the suspect conspired with Moses Abidemi Awuraji, a herbalist, to kill the victims for cash ritual.
“The suspects strangled their victims to demise and dismembered their physique components and bought them to Oluwo Monday Samuel and Alfa Ariwo (who remains to be at giant) for ritual functions.
“The three suspects confessed to the killing of ten totally different women on the Igbo Olomi residence of Moses Abidemi,” Alamutu mentioned.
Narrating how he lured and killed the victims, Azeez mentioned, “I bought the women from MyChat, which is a hookup app. I simply informed them that I wished to hook up with them at any time when Moses Abidemi Awuraji contacted me that they wanted human physique components.
“They may name me and say that they want physique components, I’ll go on the app and chat with the women for a hookup. I didn’t know the women earlier than, we didn’t have any dialog earlier than, I solely talked to them on the app. I ask if they’re accessible and we negotiate on the quantity they wish to acquire. Once we attain an settlement, I’ll ship my handle to them and they’re going to come over to me at Atan-Ota.
“I’ll decide them up and name Moses Abidemi Awuraji that they’re round, I’ll then take them to Moses Abidemi Awuraji’s home in Igbo Olomi, Atan-Ota, and inside his sitting room, we’ll kill them.
“Abidemi’s spouse (Awuraji Mariam) will pin their legs down whereas I strangle them.
“I joined the gang in September in 2023 and we now have killed seven women. These are the women that I dropped at the home that we killed.
“I don’t know what they use the corpses of the women for, my job is simply to supply for the women and convey them in. They don’t normally inform me the quantity they’ll give, at occasions, they’ll pay me N30,000, different occasions, they gave me N40,000.
“I can’t say no to them at any time when they ask me to carry the women. I don’t know who they promote the physique components to and I don’t ask them about it, my very own is simply to supply the women and acquire my cash.”
In the meantime, Alamutu mentioned the Command is working assiduously to unravel the id of different victims.
He urged members of the general public with lacking family to report back to the police with photographers of the lacking individuals.
