Operatives of Federal Special Anti-Robbery
Squad, (FSARS), Osun State Command have
arrested a member of a gang of ritual killers,
25 year old Ganiyu Tajudeen for killing and
beheading a four-year-old boy identified as
Bakare Teslim. Graphic picture
Tribune reports that Ganiyu in connivance with
other member of his ritualistic gang namely
Aremu Moshood (48), Agboola Abdulwasiu (31)
and Ganiyu Abidoye (60), lured little Bakare
from his parent's home under the pretext that
they wanted to buy him groundnut and then
proceeded to kill him and behead him in Iragbiji,
the headquarters of Boripe Local Government
Area of Osun State.
Police sources say the matter came to the
open after Bakare did not return with Ganiyu
who promised to buy him groundnut. When
Bakare's father, Ismail, sought to know his
son's where about, Ganiyu denied that he ever
saw the little boy. His claim was however
contradicted by an elderly woman who lived in
the same compound with Bakare's father who
said she saw Ganiyu take the young boy out.
The matter was reported to the office of the
FSARS and through intensive interrogation,
Ganiyu confessed to have taken the boy to an
unknown destination with the sole aim of
using him for money ritual. He said that
himself and his gang members had cut off
Bakare's head and buried it in a shallow grave
and then threw his body within the same
vicinity and buried it with leaves
Ganiyu while confessing said
“I am a palm fruit cutter. The mother of
the body came to my house to tell me
that she would need my services to cut
palm fruits, asking me to come the
following day. But I went to her house at
about 5.30p.m same day. I took the
young boy with me, with the belief that
no one noticed when he was going with
me. I bought N20 worth of groundnut for
him before taking him to my house at
Iyana Olofa.”
Ganiyu initially claimed that he got Bakare at
the prompting of his partner, Moshood, who
had earlier asked him to bring the urine, blood
and hair of a young boy when he went to
Moshood for money ritual and for protection.
The suspect added that he went to
Abdulwasiu for the same ritual and he also
asked him to bring a boy. Ganiyu also
indicted his father, Abidoye, in his statement,
saying that he was the one also told him to
kill a boy and bury his body so that his acts
would not be exposed.
He told the police that he took the deceased
to Olokede bush where he cut his head with a
knife and buried it, while he threw the body
away. Investigations showed that Ganiyu had
once been arrested in 2012 for stealing a
child at Otapete area of Iragbiji. He was said
to have been beaten and macheted by
indigenes of the town before he was taken to
the police station, while the rescued boy was
returned to his parents. Ganiyu was eventually
charged to court and spent seven months in
Ilesa prison.
Ganiyu and his other accomplices have been
dragged before an Osogbo magistrates’ court
on a four-count charge of conspiracy,
kidnapping, murder and unlawful and
intentional killing of Teslim Bakare. The
suspects, whose pleas were not taken by
Magistrate B.B Idowu Ajao, ordered that the
suspects be remanded in prison till February
18th for the next hearing on the case.
Source: Tribune
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