The Police Authority in Imo State, Umeneke Division has arrested an Assemblies of God pastor, Esom Jehovah, for allegedly stabbing a trainee nurse to death.
The victim identified as Callista, approached the pastor over a missing phone battery and charger she was given to charge.
An eye-witness told Sun that a boy in the compound gave the deceased a phone battery and charger to assist him recharge but Pastor Esom Jehovah’s first daughter stole the items which were later found in her custody five days after.
”The Pastor reacted angrily to the allegation against his daughter and beat up the deceased before his daughter went and picked a kitchen knife and stuck it deep into her back while her father held her down.”
The corpse has been deposited at the Holy Rosary Hospital morgue in the state.
A close source disclosed that the 21-year-old daughter is currently on the run, while the Pastor who almost fled after stabbing the deceased with the knife was arrested by the police.
The Ogun State Police Command has arrested three self-acclaimed Muslim clerics with fresh and dried human body parts suspected to be used rituals purposes.
The Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Ilyasu, who paraded the suspects on Sunday at the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, headquarters in Abeokuta said they would be charged for alleged ritual murder.
Ilyasu, who gave the identities of the trio as Adebayo Mudashiru (36), Raheed Abass (33) and Rasaq Adenekan (42), said: “they were caught with fresh and dried human parts, human skull, reptiles and assorted charms.
“Upon interrogation, the suspects were discovered to be serial killers, with their operational office located at number 6 Baase compound, Totoro, Abeokuta.”
The three suspects while speaking with journalists said they engaged in the rituals to help solve their clients’ problems.
Another suspected ritual killer, Adebayo Mubashiru, has confessed that he and his colleagues buy human parts, including skulls, eyes and teeth, for N12,000.
The state Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Iliyasu, paraded the suspects at the headquarters of the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Magbon, Abeokuta over the weekend.
He said the four suspects specialized in killing for ritual purposes and belonged to two different ritual groups.
The police boss said one of the groups, comprising Mudashiru and Rasheed Abass, who resided in the Totoro area of Abeokuta, were arrested on 5 October by operatives of FSARS.
Iliyasu said the two suspects were sighted on a motorcycle with a suspicious bag by policemen, who were on patrol, and they were stopped for a search.
He added that the search led to the discovery of fresh and dried human parts, dead lizards and charms, adding that they were serial killers.
Iliyasu also revealed that two other suspects, Lateef Aremu and Kolawole Shodipo, were arrested at the Owode-Egba area of the state the same day.
He said operatives of the FSARS received information about them and trailed them to their hideouts, where they were arrested with human skulls and bones.
The suspect was arrested alongside three others in the Abeokuta and Owode Egba areas of the state by men of the Ogun State Police Command.
A Chief Magistrates’ Court in Minna has granted bail to a housewife, Eucharia Mba, who was earlier apprehended by the police for allegedly selling her four-month-old baby for N605,000.
The woman was arrested alongside Bright Ahuruezeanya of Chanchaga area of Minna and one Peter Ani.
The defendants are facing three counts bordering on criminal conspiracy, buying and selling of a minor.
According to the police First Information Report, one Mr. John of Mechanic Junction in Chanchaga, had sometime in September, 2017 reported to the police that Amaka Bright of the same address with Bright Ahuruezeanya conspired with his wife Eucharia and sold his four-month-old baby boy.
It was alleged that Eucharia and the other two accused persons left for Enugu State where they sold the baby to one Mr. Ani for N605,000.
The suspects, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges when the case came up for mention.
The presiding chief magistrate, Hassan Mohammed, ordered the remand of the two men involved in the matter and granted bail to the two women on health grounds.
The magistrate said, “The court will grant bail to the two accused women because one is eight months pregnant while the other one is nursing a four-month-old baby. It will be unjust to expose them to health hazard and it would be unfair to the innocent four months old baby and the one yet to be born.”
The magistrate later granted the two men bail in the sum of N500,000 each with a surety who must be resident within Minna, the Niger state Capital.
“They should also produce two recent passports as well as their national identification card,” the magistrate added.
The case was adjoined till October 18, 2017.
The offence contravened sections 79 and 278 of the Penal Code Law.
