Police Arrest Man For Selling Stepdaughter’s Head, Hands To Ritualists

The Police in Ogun State have arrested one Korede Odubela for selling the head and hands of his step-daughter, Amudalat Oshimodi, to ritualists.

Odubela was said to have strangled the girl to death, harvested her head and hands before selling them to ritualists.

Also arrested in connection with the ritual murder of Amudalat, is Lekan Lawal, who allegedly assisted Odubela to strangle the victim at  Imosan area of  Ifesowapo Local Council Development Area of Ogun State.

The duo who confessed to committing the crime, were paraded Tuesday at Eleweran, the Headquarters of Ogun State Police Command, by the Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Iliyasu.

Iliyasu said the suspected choked the victim  to death and later sold  her head and hands  to ritualists.

Odubela who admitted the crime, told reporters that he and Lekan carried out the heinous crime.

Odubela said: “it is true that Lekan Lawal and I connived to kill my step-daughter. The girl was 16 years old, she was always stealing her mother’s money.

“And the mother said we should kill her as a sacrifice for the other children she had. Since she normally sleep at the door post outside.

“So, on the fateful night around 12 midnight, I invited Lekan Lawal, and he held the girl by the neck and strangled her while I held her legs. That was how she died.”

According to him, his step -daughter’s head was sold to one  Seun, a herbalist at N3,000.

The Police Commissioner told reporters that  the case was still being investigated while the remains  of Amudalat has been deposited at the morgue of State Hospital, Ijebu Ode.

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Police arrest man for selling step – daughter’s head, hands  to ritualists

Ministerial Appointee, Zainab Ahmed, Hands Over At NEITI Ahead Of Inauguration

The outgoing Executive Secretary of the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI), Zainab Ahmed, on Tuesday handed over the management of the agency to the Director of Communications of the agency, Ogbannaya Orji.

Mrs. Ahmed is one of President Muhammadu Buhari’s ministerial nominees confirmed last week by the Senate.

In her valedictory speech Tuesday, Mrs. Ahmed described her appointment as not a personal recognition, but an acknowledgement of the importance of NEITI’s role in the country.

“The appointment is therefore a key achievement for all of us. It is one of the major impacts of EITI in Nigeria and a positive acknowledgement of the work we have all collectively done in the last five years,” Mrs. Ahmed noted

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N1trn Funds: Our Hands Are Clean- EFCC

Chairman of the Eco­nomic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Ibrahim Lamorde, yesterday said allegations that he looted about N1 trillion recovered from former Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Tafa Balogun, former governor of Bayelsa State, late Chief Diepreye Ala­mieyeseigha, among others, is the handiwork of blackmailers. Lamorde said the blackmail­ers were recruited by corrupt Nigerians to derail the EFCC.

A statement signed by the Commission’s Head of Me­dia and Publicity, Mr. Wil­son Uwujaren described Mr. George Uboh, who raised the allegations against Lamorde in a petition to the Senate Com­mittee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions, as a con­victed wire fraudster, who was being prosecuted by the EFCC at the High Court of the Feder­al Capital Territory, Abuja for alleged “conversion of proper­ties of the Police Equipment Foundation.”

The commission, the state­ment said, maintained “dig­nified silence over the past couple of weeks, not because it had anything to hide, but pre­ferred to wait for the report of KPMG, the international audit firm which it commissioned in June 2014 to undertake a forensic audit of the record of exhibits and assets recovered by the commission since the creation of EFCC in 2003.”

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