By ALAO ABIODUN

Outrage and anger have greeted the actions of three teenage boys on Saturday caught burning the head of a girl said to be in a relationship with one of them for money ritual in Oke Aregba area of Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital.

Many Nigerians on social media described the gruesome actions of the teenagers as “despicable and callous”.

Some others lamented the scourge of ritual killings especially being perpetrated by youths who are carried away by the get-rich-quick syndrome.

The Nation learnt that Ogun State Police Command arrested the three teenagers in the early hours of Saturday following the tip-off by one Segun Adewusi, who is the community security guard.

The teenagers, 17-year-old Wariz Oladehinde; 19-year-old Abdulgafar Lukman, and Mustakeem Balogun, 20 respectively, strangled the girl simply identified as Rofiat.

The security guard was reported to have observed that four boys were burning something suspected to be human head in a local pot.

In the now-viral confessional video seen by The Nation, one of the suspects led police operatives to the building, where Rofiat’s dismembered body was recovered along with the short cutlass and a knife used in cutting off her head.

Confirming the incident, the Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi in a statement said the three boys have been arrested.

Oyeyemi said: “Three young boys whose ages range between 17and 20 years were in the early hours of Saturday 29th of January 2022 arrested by men of Ogun State Police Command for killing a girlfriend of their friend for money making ritual.

“On interrogation, the arrested suspects confessed that what they were burning in the local pot is the head of the girlfriend of their escaped accomplice.

“They confessed further that the girl who was simply identified as Rofiat was lured by her boyfriend simply identified as Soliu to where she was murdered by four of them, after which they cut off her head and packed the remains in a sack, and dumped it in an old building.

“They subsequently led policemen to the building, where the dismembered body was recovered and deposited at general hospital mortuary for autopsy.

“The short cutlass and a knife used in cutting off the deceased head were also recovered.” (The Nation)

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