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  • Sad: 3 friends, Alfa behead 14-year-old boy for rituals in Ibadan

    Sad: 3 friends, Alfa behead 14-year-old boy for rituals in Ibadan

    Sad: 3 friends, Alfa behead 14-year-old boy for rituals in Ibadan

    14-year-old boy

    A 14-year-old boy, Malik Kareem was reportedly beheaded by his 3 friends and an Alfa for money rituals.

    The incident occurred on Saturday at the Olorisaoko community in the Akinyele Local Government Area of the state.

    The victim recently wrote his WASSCE at Iyana Community Grammar School, Olode, Moniya, Ibadan.

    Punch reported that the victim, alongside three of his friends, contacted a Muslim cleric for a money ritual on that day.

    Unknown to the victim, the three other boys had bargained with the cleric to kill him for a money ritual.

    News of Kareem’s murder made the family rush to the cleric’s house and confirmed the headless body was their son.

    The bereaved family said they learnt that Kareem was strangled to death, beheaded and his head, which was missing from his body, had been cremated.

    The cleric had burnt the head so the other boys would use the ashes to drink pap daily.

    The Muslim cleric had fled at the time.

    The state Police Public Relations Officer, Adewale Osifeso, said investigations had already commenced on the incident.

    Loved ones have taken to social media to mourn the deceased.

  • Kidnappers disguised as drivers, passengers abduct travellers on Ibadan-Oyo Road

    Kidnappers disguised as drivers, passengers abduct travellers on Ibadan-Oyo Road

    Kidnappers disguised as drivers, passengers abduct travellers on Ibadan-Oyo Roadç

     

     

    FORMER Speaker, OYO State House of Assembly Mr Asimiyu Alarape has alerted residents and motorists plying the Ibadan-Oyo road to be vigilant as a gang of kidnappers has kidnapped some passengers on the expressway.

     

    He said one of his neighbours who was released by the kidnappers narrated his ugly experience in the hands of the kidnappers.

     

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    According to him, the gang including the driver of a bus disguised as passengers and boarded the commercial bus only to be forced to stop halfway and robbed by eight kidnappers who collected their phones and money before leading other passengers into a thick forest.

     

    He wrote: “Ibadan to Oyo road is now kidnapper’s den. One of my neighbours who boarded a bus going to Oyo yesterday was stopped in the middle of the road.”

     

    “The kidnappers who disguised as passengers numbering up to eight marched them into the forest.

    After they had collected their phones, they released three of them(including my neighbour) and took others into the deep forest. Only God knows their fate inside the kidnapper’s den.”

     

    “Also, the driver of the eighteen-passenger bus was among the kidnapper gang. Let’s create this awareness that Oyo/Ibadan road is not safe again and let our family and friends be informed also.”

     

    While reacting to the kidnap attempt, the National President of Soludero Hunters Association, Oba Nureni Akintola Anabi said this has been their cries that the state government and the Inspector General of Police, Mr Kayode Egbetokun should give the hunters approval to comb the forests.

     

    “You know we have been crying that the Oyo State Government should empower us even if they are not giving us anything to enter the forest. We have been working in the forest for long.”

     

    “But, we want to be careful so that we are not used as guinea pigs at the end of the day. If we go into the forest without their permission, they may query us who sent us there. We are familiar with the terrain and we know what to do”.

     

    “Whenever the authorities give us the go-ahead, we will smoke the bandits out of the forests and hand them over to the law enforcement agents”, he said.