The Ogun State Police Command has arrested the most wanted suspected serial killer, who is also a member of a notorious ritualist syndicate terrorising the state.
The syndicate was said to be involved in the killing and dismembering of the bodies of many victims, one of whom was Oyindamola Adeyemi, who was butchered at Ijebu Ode on January 28, 2023.
According to Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, ”The suspect, 35-year-old Ifasoji Ayangbesan, whose other members of his gang had earlier been arrested, was apprehended following painstaking intelligence-based investigation embarked upon by detectives from Obalende Divisional Headquarters, which led them to his hideout at 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 to flight immediately he heard that he was mentioned by his accomplices.
“Since then, DPO Obalende division, SP Murphy Salami, detailed detectives to be on his trail with the view to arresting him and 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 the 28th of April 2023. Immediately after he was arrested, the suspect offered an N1 million bribe to the policemen, who rejected it.
“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, Mr. Olanrewaju Yomi Oladimeji, commended his men for their uprightness and directed that the suspect be transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department to be prosecuted along with other members of his syndicate.
