Ogun State Police Command personnel have arrested a 54-year-old man, identified as Dauda Bello, for allegedly killing a 71-year-old woman, Ms. Mesesi Adisa, after which he cut off the victim’s wrists and ankles.
Within Nigeria learned that the suspect was arrested following the sudden disappearance of the victim, who left home and has not returned home since June 8, 2022.
The victim’s relative then reported a missing person to the Sabo/Ilupeju Police Station.
It was also revealed that the case was later referred to the State Criminal Investigation Unit’s Anti-Kidnapping Unit, where technical and intelligence investigations were launched.
During an investigation, the team led by SP Taiwo Opadiran identified the last place the victim visited as the suspect’s home in the Olodo area of Imala.
The suspect was subsequently arrested and taken into custody for investigation.
During interrogation, the suspect admitted that he had known the victim for some time and that they both worked in the child trafficking business.
He further explained that on that fateful day he had invited the victim to discuss their usual business, but when he got to his home, he found the victim came with what he believed to be a huge sum of money.
This prompted him to hit the woman in the head with a heavy wooden stick, knocking the woman unconscious, after which he carried the victim’s unconscious body into the bush, where he eventually sniffed the life out of her.
He further confessed that upon searching the woman’s body he discovered that the victim had with him only the sum of #22,200 (twenty-two thousand two hundred naira), which he accepted with disappointment.
After realizing his goal of getting lots of money from the victim was futile, he decided to cut off two of her wrists and ankles, which he allegedly sold to someone who is now at large.
State Police Command spokesman DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi confirmed the incident to journalists, saying the suspect took police into the bush where he buried the victim in a shallow grave and the dismembered body was recovered and placed in the morgue been.
Oyeyemi added that Police Commissioner of State CP Lanre Bankole commended the team for their thorough work and ordered the case to go to court once the investigation is complete.
He also ordered that anyone directly or indirectly involved in the case should be held accountable.
