A 32-year-old suspected ritual killer in Ogun State on Thursday told the police that he has abducted and killed seven women between September 2023 and February 2024 using “hookup” sites as a means of luring the victims.
The suspect who confessed to that he joined a gang specializing in ritual killing in September 2023 said that he was paid between N30,000 and N40,000 for every victim he brought to the gang.
Describing how he does his dirty job, the suspect said:
“I got the ladies from MyChat, which is a hookup app,”
” I just talk to them that I want to hook up with them whenever a client contacted me that they needed human body parts
“They will call me that they need body parts, and I will go to the application and chat up the ladies for hookup.”
“I will then take them to his house in Igbo Olomi, Atan-Ota, where we will then kill them inside his sitting room.
“I don’t know what they use the corpses of the ladies for; my job is just to source for the ladies and bring them in,” he
“I don’t know who they sell the body parts to, and I don’t ask them about it; my own is just to source for the ladies and collect my money.”
Confirming the story of the suspect, the Ogun State Commissioner of police, Abiodun Alamutu, told journalists that the suspect conspired with an herbalist to kill the victims for money ritual.
According to the CP, the suspects strangled their victims to death and dismembered their bodies for sale to the herbalist and another accomplice who is at large.
CP Alamutu assured that the command was working hard to unravel the identity of the victims. He called on members of the public with missing relatives to report to the police with photographs of such persons.
“The command is using this avenue to advise our youths for the umpteenth time to desist from untoward behaviours.
“It is through a social media platform that all the victims were lured to their untimely deaths.
The police boss said that “the suspects have assured the police that they will recognise the victims they have killed if their photographs are made available.”