Ayobami Ife, Abeokuta
Operatives of the Amotekun Corps in Ogun State have arrested one Akinyele Adebayo and Idosu Gbalo for murder and desecrating the remains of the victim.
The victim, one Umaru Aliu, a herder popularly called “Lagi” was allegedly murdered on April 30 at Ijagure village along Sagada, Imeko-Afon Local Government of Ogun State.
The crime was perpetrated while the deceased and one Umaru Takake were grazing their cattle in the bush near Ijagure village.
It was learnt that one Fagbemi Kareem now at large who was armed with a local single barrel gun and in company of four other persons – Olorunto Segun, Baba Shele, Lana Ojugbele, and Ashipa, trailed the herders and caught up with Umaru Aliu and allegedly shot him on a farmland belonging to one Chief Ogunlana Fagbemi, Alias “Osewuya” at Ijagure village, while Umaru Takake narrowly escaped unhurt.
The Amotekun Corps Commander in Ogun State, David A. Akinremi, a retired Police Commissioner, who disclosed this on Wednesday stated that after the alleged murder, the duo of Olorunto Segun and Baba Shele contacted one Akinyele Adebayo to assist them in dismembering the corpse and he obliged.
Akinremi added that while Baba Shele took the head of the deceased away to an unknown destination, the remaining parts of the dismembered body were packed in a sack and buried in a pit near Oyan River at Oke-Ayo village in Imeko.
However, the Corps Commander noted that the arrested suspects had admitted their various roles in the criminal act even as they took the operatives to the scene where the dismembered body, excluding the head, were dumped with several parts missing.
The prime suspects; Fagbemi Kareem and Baba Shele were said to have been arrested by Ojo Police Division, Oyo State, for the same offence, while Lana Ojugbele, Olorunto Segun and Ashipa are still at large.
Meanwhile, the suspects Akinyele Adebayo and Idosu Gbalo are being processed for transfer to Ogun State Police Headquarters, Eleweran, for further action and prosecution.
