In Ogun, Teenagers Behead Girlfriend, Burn Head For Money Ritual

Three teenage guys were detained in Ogun State early Saturday for reportedly beheading a female who was said to be in a relationship with one of them for a money ritual.

The perpetrators were apprehended by members of the community while burning the girl’s head, according to the New Telegraph.

The incident occurred in Abeokuta’s Oke Aregba neighborhood, the state capital of Ogun.

Wariz Oladehinde (17), Abdul Gafar Lukman (19), and Mustakeem Balogun are the suspects (20).

Mr Segun Adewusi, a community security guard, was said to have seen four teenagers burning something that appeared to be a human head in a local pot.

The security guard quickly notified the police at Adatan Station, who dispatched officers to the site to apprehend three of the youngsters, one of whom had left before the officers arrived.

The slain girl, identified as Rofiat, was a resident of Idi-Ape, according to a source who confirmed the incident to our correspondent. She was a girlfriend of one Soliu, who is now in police custody.

Soliu allegedly enticed the girl into his apartment, held her down, and requested one of his buddies to slay her with a knife.

“The arrested suspects were identified as 17-year-old Wariz Oladeinde from Kugba, 19-year-old Abdulgafar Lukman from Kugba and Mustakeem Balogun from Bode Olude, all in Abeokuta. Soliu was the boyfriend of the girl, he ran away, but was later arrested.

“They killed Rofiat, cut off her head, packed the headless body in a sack and started burning the head in a pot. They told the police in the presence of a mammoth crowd that they wanted to use it for money ritual.

“The police have taken the body away to a mortuary,” a source told our correspondent on Saturday.

In a video made available to our correspondent, Mustakeem Balogun, said: “We wanted to use just her head alone for money ritual. Soliu strangled her and he told me to assist him and we cut off her head.”

Confirming the incident to journalists, the Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Abimbola Oyeyemi, the suspects led policemen to the building, where the dismembered body was recovered and deposited at the general hospital mortuary for autopsy.

Oyeyemi added that, a short cutlass and a knife used in cutting off the deceased head were also recovered from the suspects.