Man kills, sells body parts of 71-year-old woman in Ogun

The police in Ogun State have arrested a 54-year-old man, Dauda Bello, for killing a 71-year-old woman, Mrs Mesesi Adisa, in Olodo, Imala area in Abeokuta North LGA. The suspect killed and cut off the wrists and ankles of the victim which he sold to another person who is now at large. The police spokesman […]

The police in Ogun State have arrested a 54-year-old man, Dauda Bello, for killing a 71-year-old woman, Mrs Mesesi Adisa, in Olodo, Imala area in Abeokuta North LGA.

The suspect killed and cut off the wrists and ankles of the victim which he sold to another person who is now at large.

The police spokesman of the command, Abimbola Oyeyemi, confirmed this to journalists in Abeokuta on Tuesday.

According to Oyeyemi, the suspect was arrested on Thursday, July 7, following the disappearance of the victim who left home on Wednesday June 8, and never returned.

He said, “In the course of investigation, the SP Taiwo Opadiran-led team traced the last place visited by the victim to be the house of the suspect at Olodo area of Imala.

“The suspect was subsequently arrested and taken into custody for investigation. On interrogation, the suspect confessed to have known the victim for quite some time and that they were both into the business of children trafficking.

“He (suspect) stated further that he invited the victim on that fateful day to discuss their usual business, but that on getting to his house he discovered that the victim came with what he thought was a huge amount of money.

“This made him to hit the woman on the head with a stick, which made the woman to be unconscious after which he carried the unconscious body of the victim to the bush where he sniffed life out of her.

“He confessed further that when he searched the woman’s body, he discovered that she only had the sum of N22,200 with her which he took with disappointment.

“Having realised that his aim of getting much money from the victim was in vain, he decided to cut off her two wrists and ankles, which he claimed to have sold to somebody who is now at large.”

He added that the suspect had taken the police to the bush where he buried the victim in a shallow grave, disclosing that the corpse of the victim had been exhumed and deposited in the mortuary.