Nemesis caught up with an Ogun State serial killer and ritualist Ifasoji Ayangbesan,as men of Ogun State Police command arrested him weekend.
The suspect, 35-year old, is a member of notorious ritualist syndicate, who killed and dismembered the body of one Oyindamola Adeyemi at Ijebu Ode on January 28, 2023.
According to the spokesman of Ogun State Police command, SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, the suspect, whose colleagues had earlier been arrested was apprehended following painstaking intelligence based investigation embarked upon by detectives from Obalende divisional headquarters, which led them to his hideout at Ijade Iloti area of Ijebu Ode.
The suspect who was said to have been indicted by the earlier arrested members of the syndicate as the person who bought the two legs of the victim, took to flight immediately he heard that he had been mentioned by his colleagues.
Since then, Oyeyemi said, the Divisional Police Officer, DPO, Obalende division, SP Murphy Salami, had detailed his detectives to be on his trail with the view to arrest him and possibly recover the deceased two legs from him and prosecute him with his colleagues in crime.
Luck however ran against him when he was apprehended at his Ijade Iloti hideout on April 28, 2023.
Immediately he was arrested, the suspect made an offer of N1 million bribe to the policemen, which was rejected.
On interrogation, he confessed being part of the syndicate that killed Oyindamola Adeyemi, and that he was the person who severed the two legs of the deceased which he claimed he used for ritual purpose.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, CP Olanrewaju Yomi Oladimeji who commended his men for their uprightness has directed that the suspect be transferred to State Criminal Investigation Departments in order to prosecute him with other members of his syndicate
