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ODUDUWA NEWS has just gathered people of Abeokuta, Ogun State were totally filled with grief and surprise when three teenagers arrested by the Police for allegedly killing their friend’s girlfriend and burning her head for money ritual were paraded.

The suspects, identified as Wariz Oladeinde, 17, Abdulgafar Lukman, 19, and Mustakeem Balogun, allegedly committed the hideous crime in Oke Aregba community.

It was gathered that in the early hours of Saturday, January 29, one Mr. Segun Adewusi, who is the community security guard, had observed that some four boys were burning something suspected to be the human head in a local pot on the road.

It was gathered that the security guard immediately alerted the police at Adatan station, who went to the scene to get three of the boys arrested as one had fled before police arrived.

A source, who confirmed the incident said the slain girl, identified as Rofiat, was a resident of Idi-Ape; she was a girlfriend to one Soliu, who is now in police net. He was said to have lured the girl to his room, where he held her down and asked one of his friends to sl#ughter her with a knife.

“Soliu was the boyfriend of the girl, he ran away, but was later arrested. They killed Rofiat, cut 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.”

ODUDUWA NEWS has gathered that Oloye Teslim Kolawole Folarin, A Senator currently representing Oyo Central senatorial district has just lost his WIFE, Barr (Chief) Angela Nwaka Folarin.

May her gentle soul rest in peace and may God console TKF and his entire family.

Details later.

No fewer than 10 policemen were injured while attempting to arrest members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers at Diamond Hotel, Alakia Isebo, Ibadan, Oyo State.

It was gathered that Lamidi Mukaila popularly called ‘Auxiliary’, who is chairman of the NURTW in the state, is the owner of the hotel.

According to a source, Mukaila had ordered his men to shoot at any officer, who tries to make an arrest in his hotel.

The officers, who are currently admitted at a hospital, had visited the hotel to make an arrest but due to Mukaila’s orders, the men immediately attacked the officers, overpowered them and seized their guns.

Meanwhile, according to Sahara reporters, a source in the camp of the NURTW revealed that the AK-47 rifles the road workers seized from the police were currently with one of the auxiliary boys simply identified as Adebowale Abiodun at Akure Park, Ibadan.

The source said, “There is one beer parlour close to the auxiliary’s hotel. The police were informed that there were armed robbers were being harboured at the spot. So, the police were on the trail of the robbers when the auxiliary boys sighted the officers and opened fire on them. They stabbed the officers like bush meat.”

He added that Auxillary had been fingered in many killings and violence in the state in recent times.

SaharaReporters also gathered three soldiers of the Nigerian Army were mobilised to guard the hotel.

In 2014, Auxiliary was arrested for gun-running and some violent crimes in the Alakia Isebo area.

During his days as NURTW chairman, the suspect was alleged to have been involved in political crises and killings in Ibadan.

He was paraded at the Lagos Police Command Headquarters, Ikeja, by the state Commissioner of Police, Umar Manko in 2014.

He was further sentenced to six years imprisonment along with Saidi Kareem, Abu Kareem and Kazeem Kayode by Justice Eni Esan of the Oyo State High Court sitting in Ibadan.

His release was facilitated by the current governor of the state, Seyi Makinde, in the build up to the 2019 general elections.

A second prosecution witness, Peter Odewo-Oritse, an operations manager at KenBen Nig. Ltd., a company in Warri, Delta State owned by the father of late Sylvester Oromoni, has testified at the coroner’s inquest investigating the controversial death of the Dowen College student.

While answering questions from the lawyer to the Lagos State Government, Seun Akande, the witness testified that the deceased had an enlarged liver but was not immediately taken to a hospital, according to Channels Television.Magistrate Mikail Kadiri sitting at the Epe Magistrate Court, Lagos, also heard that upon arrival in Warri, Delta State, the Oromoni family doctor, Aghoho Owhojede, attended to the boy who was treated for malaria.

Based on the doctor’s instructions, a scan and an x-ray were later conducted on the boy, which results revealed among other things that the boy had a liver enlargement.The witness said the Oromoni parents initially arranged with Dr Owhojede to take their son to the Delta State Teaching Hospital, Oghara for treatment but added that he was eventually taken to one Vicar Hospital on Nov. 30th where he was said to have later died.

The witness also testified that the boy and his mother had first gone to church for prayers before the medical tests were carried out.At the last sitting of the court on Jan. 21st, the first witness, Clifford Tejire had told the coroner how he went to Dowen College on Nov. 23rd to pick the late Sylvester from school. He added that though the boy was in great pains, and his condition worsened, he was not instructed by the parents to take him to the hospital.Oromoni, a 12-year-old student of Dowen College, Lekki, was later taken by road to Warri in Delta State where he eventually died on Nov 30th.

Meanwhile, the Ijaw Youth Council, Lagos Chapter has filed an application seeking to be joined in the inquest. The coroner says the application will be considered at the next sitting of the court on Friday, Jan. the 28th.

A Yaba Chief Magistrate’s Court, Lagos, today, ordered the remand of Alhaji Azeez Adekunle Lawal, a.k.a. Kunle Poly, and two others, in the facility of the Nigeria Police Zonal Monitoring Unit, Zone 2 Headquarters, Onikan-Lagos, for 30 days, over last Thursday’s Idumota mayhem.

Others ordered to be remanded alongside Kunle Poly, are: Prince Idowu Onikoyi Johnson and Agboola Akeem Kosoko.
Chief Magistrate Linda Balogun, made the remand order of the three National Union of Road Transport Workers, after their application for remand was moved by Barrister Morufu Animashaun.

In urging the court to remand the three, Barrister Animashaun, told the court that the application is pursuant to section 264(1), (2), (3), (4) and (6) of the Administration of Criminal Justice Law of Lagos State, 2021 (as amended); Section 4 and 10 of the Police Act, 2020, and sections 6(c), 35(1)(C)(5) and (7)(a) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 199 (as amended). Animashaun told the court that the application sought for, is to enable the police conclude investigation of a case OF threat to life and property, violence, cultism, mayhem, conduct likely to jeopardize the peace of the State.