Police arrest serial killer, ritualist

Operatives of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested a member of a notorious ritualist syndicate who allegedly killed and dismembered the body of one Oyindamola Adeyemi at Ijebu Ode on January 28, 2023.
The suspect, 35-year-old Ifasoji Ayangbesan, whose other members of his gang had earlier been arrested, was apprehended by detectives from Obalende divisional headquarters, which led them to his hideout in the Ijade Iloti area of Ijebu Ode.
The suspect, who has been indicted by the earlier arrested members of the syndicate as the person who bought the two legs of the victim, took flight immediately he heard that he had been mentioned by his colleagues.
Since then, the DPO Obalende division, SP Murphy Salami, has detailed his detectives to be on his trail with the view to arresting him, possibly recovering the deceased’s two legs from him, and prosecuting him with his colleagues in crime.
Luck, however, ran against him when he was apprehended at his Ijade Iloti hideout on April 28, 2023.
Immediately after he was arrested, the suspect made an offer of one million naira in bribes to the policemen, which was rejected.
On interrogation, he confessed to being part of the syndicate that killed Oyindamola Adeyemi and that he was the person who severed the two legs of the deceased, which he claimed he used for ritual purposes.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, CP Olanrewaju Yomi Oladimeji, who commended his men for their uprightness, has directed that the suspect be transferred to state criminal investigation departments in order to prosecute him along with other members of his syndicate.