20-year-old kills father for ritual in Ogun

In Oshoku Village, Ijebu North Local Government Area, Ogun State, a 20-year-old man going by the name of Ridwan is accused of ritually killing his father, Ishau.

This was said in a statement released on Friday by Soji Ganzallo, Commander of the Ogun State Community, Social Orientation and Safety Corps, via Moruf Yusuf, Director of Information and Public Relations.

The statement claims that the suspect was apprehended during a normal patrol by members of the So-Safe Corps on Thursday at around 12 a.m. when they heard a peculiar noise coming from a building and checked what was going on, which led them to find the victim’s lifeless body.

The statement read, “At about 12:00hrs on Thursday, August 31, 2023, officers of the Corps on routine patrol heard a strange noise in a building while at Oshoku Village in Ijebu North Local Government Area.

“The Officers entered the building to confirm what was happening, but to the officers’ dismay, they found a man’s body lying lifeless in a pool of his own blood and the alleged killer fled the scene.”

The corps started looking for the suspected murderer on the commander’s orders, and they eventually found him hidden in a bush.

The suspect admitted to murdering his father for the ritual’s purposes.

“Ganzallo instructed the Zonal Commander, Ijebu Zonal Command, ACC Marcus Ayankoya, to get the suspected killer Ridwan arrested under 24hrs. The suspected killer was nabbed where he was hiding in a bush.

“He confessed to having killed his father, Ishau, with a rope tied to his neck and a knife used to remove the needed parts of his body for ritual purposes.

“The alleged killer told the officers of the corps that he only removed the private part, larynx, and just four teeth of his father as requested by a ritualist he identified as Baba Kekere.

However, the corps’ attempts to learn more about the ritualist who gave the suspect the order to obtain body parts for rituals were unsuccessful since the suspect refused to reveal the ritualist’s location.

He was subsequently turned over to the police for additional inquiry and legal action.

“Ganzallo further revealed that when he was asked about the whereabouts of the ritualist, he refused to give details.

“The alleged killer had been transferred to the Nigeria Police Force, Ogbere Divisional Headquarters for further investigation and likely prosecution,” the statement concluded.