Murder suspect accuses lawyer of betraying him to police because of inability to afford N10million legal fee

A suspected Ifasoji Ayangbesan arrested by the Ogun State Command for his alleged role in killing of a woman and body dismembered for ritual said his lawyer traded him away to the police when he could not meet up the sum of N10million demanded by the lawyer to set him free

Penpushing reports that Ayangbesan said this while being paraded by the police at the command headquarters at Eleweran, Abeokuta, but confessed that he bought two fresh human legs at N20,000, just as he denied offering police a bribe of N1million.

The Ogun State Police Command Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi it is recalled in a statement said the suspect had offered the bribe to evade arrest, adding that the money was rejected by the police operatives who effected his arrest

Penpushing further reports that the suspect in his own account said when he could not raise the N10million requested by the lawyer, he (lawyer) became annoyed and in turn claimed that he had told some people about the demand

‘Only for the lawyer to claim that I had informed someone about him asking me for money, he was angry, He then asked me to place the money on a table, I did and he took a picture of the money and the police came in and I was arrested”, he said

“I did not offer the police any bribe. When I heard that the police were on the lookout for me, a lawyer told me to get N10 million to set myself free, but I told him I could not raise the money, but I was able to raise N1 million.

Penpushing also reports that Ayangbesan, an herbalist and resident of Iloti in Ijebu-Ode Local Government Area of Ogun State, in similar vein, denied   participate in the killing of the victim but only bought the part of the victim’s body that he needed for fetish ritual.

‘I indeed bought two fresh human legs, but I was not involved in the murder of the victim. I was approached by my friend, Lukman, who told me he had a pair of legs to sell. Though I told him I did not need them, he convinced me to use them for rituals to better my life, and I agreed’, he confessed.

“I then told him that I did not know how to make money rituals as I was not taught that as a traditionalist. He then referred me to his friend from Oye, popularly known as Egbeji, in Isiwo. After I was taught how to go about it, I burnt the legs and kept them in my house with plans to complete the rituals when I returned from Ajah because I had a job to do there’.

“Suddenly, my daughter called me while I was at Ajah that the police had come to the house looking for me. So, I later sneaked in and took away the legs so that I would not be caught with any evidence because I heard that Lukman had been arrested and he had mentioned my involvement in the case.”

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