Segun Akanni, Toronto, Canada 
Reported by Abimbola Obatayo, Ibadan
The Oyo Police Police Command, has on Friday paraded three people in connection with the killing of innocent people at Akinyele Local Government Area of Ibadan, the Capital city of Oyo State.
Speaking at the Command Headquarters Eleyele Ibadan on the development, the State Commissioner of Police, CP Joe Nwachukwu Enwowu the Command had to embarked on an agressive and sustainable community policing strategy, coupled with the cooperation of the affected community leaders, the concerted effort of put up by Officers and men of the Command and also the unflinching support of the Oyo State Government and the support of received by the good people of Oyo State that eventually paid off in arresting those suspected criminals.
The suspected criminal were paraded alongside 19 other suspected criminals that alledgedly committed various offences such as Armed Robbery, Defilements, Rape, Murder Attempt and India Hemp Dealer.
CP Joe Nwachukwu, said the suspected serial killers has been troubling the settled water at Akinyele Local Government Area of the City, and they have confessed to the crime.
While briefing journalists on how the suspected killers were arrested, CP, Joe Nwachukwu said on the June 4, 2020, at about 11:30 PM, some unknown hoodlums who have been terrorizing members of the public in Akinyele, Ojoo, and Moniya Areas of Ibadan invaded the residence of one Azizat Somuyiwa, female, aged 29, a pregnant woman at Ijefun, L- Adisa Community, Ojoo, Area, Ibadan.
According to the CP, who said the unknown notorious hoodlums brutally attacked the said pregnant woman, before, she was later hacked to death in cold blood and her Techno Mobile Phone was carted away.
“The incident was reported at Ojoo Divisional Police Headquarters, Ibadan on, 5th April, 2020 and I mobilized SARS operatives with Policemen from the State CID, Ibadan and visisted the scene of the crime for on spot assessment.
“After discreet investigation by a text of SARS Operatives, One Shehu Usman Male, was arrested in connection with the crime, and Techno Mobile Phone belonging to the slain woman was recovered from him. Though the suspect denied his involvement in the crime but gave useful information which led to arrest of one notorious hoodlums who identified himself as Sunday Shodipe, Male aged 20.
“The suspected criminal confessed to have single handedly masterminds the crime and explained in details how he invaded the victim’s residence where she was brutally attacked, robbed her before she was later murdered in her cold blood, he however explained his modus operandi that he used to target famale victims, attacked them with dangerous weapon (shovel) robbed them before hacking them to death. CP. Joe Nwachukwu stressed.
Speaking with the newsmen, the prime suspect Sunday Shodipe confessed to have been behind all the killings in Akinyele Local Government Area.
He said ” I was sent by this Baba, Mr. Adedokun Yinusa Ajani, Male, aged 50, an herbalist, this Baba is an herbalist in my area, I’m his apprentice, he used to send me to go and use shovel to hit people on head, before I go for each operation, Baba will asked me to kneel down and close my eyes and he will begin to do some incantations, and after that he will tell me to go and hit my target with this shovel and that I must wait to confirm that the person is dead before leaving the scene, he used to say that I should immediately recite an incantations after I might have hit my target on head and stay in that scene for at least five minutes, that during that five minutes nobody will see me, and the ghost will be having sexual intercourse with the dead victim, then after the five minutes I will leave the scene, and then go straight to Baba’s house, he usually gave me N500, and a plate of Amala on each occasions.
” I was arrested, because the last victim that I attacked did not die, just because I didn’t remembered to recite the incantations, and some local hunters saw me while leaving the premises of the scene on that day, the phone I also stole from one of my operations was sold out to this guy Shehu Usman, whom I had already told that the phone has been locked but he insisted buying the phone that he will open it, and he gave me Five thousand naira, four One thousand naira notes and two Five Hundred naira notes, his arrest eventually led to my arrest.
The herbalist, Mr. Adedokun Yinusa Ajani Olosanyin however denied sending Sunday Shodipe for killing, but admitted that Sunday was one time his apprentice.
He said ” I know him, he was my apprentice, but I don’t know about all these killing his talking about, I don’t send him on such errand, I’m an herbalist but not a ritualist, I don’t know how to do rituals. Ajani Yinusa said.
Sunday Shodipe however, counter the herbalist Mr Adedokun Yinusa saying the old man initially deined knowing him when they were first arrested. He said I had to tell those SARS operatives to called my mother and enquire from her and it was when my mother was invited by the SARE operatives that the man now confessed of knowing me, my mother was the one that took me to him to learn herbalist from him.”
The families of the slained victims were all present during the parade, and they all called for proper Justice over the case.
The lucky victims, a woman and her daughter, Mrs. Adeola Azeez, aged 45, and her daughter,Oyeyemi Dolapo 23, were also present at the Command Headquarters during the briefing, they were the last operation of Sunday Shodipe, they were attacked, though they did not die, but suffered various degree of injuries on their heads as a result of the shovel that was used to hit them on head.
