Police arrest hotelier, 3 others over missing woman

An hotelier, Soneye Lateef has been arrested alongside three others by the Ogun State Police over alleged missing of a woman, suspected to have been used for rituals by the suspected gang.

Penpushing reports that, Police Command Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi made this known in a statement, adding that the 36 year old woman identified as Adebayo Aminat Keji was reported to have been missing since September 16, 2022 by her elder brother.

The command said, the brother, Ahmed Adebayo told the Divisional Police Headquarters in Sagamu, Sagamu local government area of the state, that the victim left home on the 15th of September and her whereabout was  unknown since then, a development which prompted the police operatives to launch investigation.

Penpushing further reports that, Oyeyemi said the the Commissioner of Police, Lanre Bankole, directed the Anti-Kidnapping  Unit of the State Criminal Investigation Departments to unravel the mystery behind the sudden disappearance of the woman, which led to the arrest of the four suspects including: Azeez Raimi, Yusuf Shaeed, Awodero Michael and Soneye Lateef

“Operatives of Ogun State Police Command have arrested four men over the sudden disappearance of a 36 years old woman ,Adebayo Aminat Keji who has gone missing since on the 16th of September 2022”, the statement said.

“The suspects, Azeez Raimi, 21yrs, Yusuf Shaeed 33yrs, Awodero Michael 27yrs and Soneye Lateef 39yrs were arrested following a complain lodged at Shagamu divisional headquarters by the elder brother of the victim one Ahmed Adebayo, who reported that the victim left home since on the 15th of September and her whereabout is unknown since then”, Oyeyemi added

“Upon the report, the Commissioner of Police, CP Lanre Bankole, directed the anti kidnapping unit of the state Criminal Investigation Departments to unravel the mystery behind the sudden disappearance of the woman. In compliance with the CP’s directive, the SP Taiwo Opadiran led team embarked on technical and intelligence based investigation, which led them to one Soneye Lateef an hotelier, whose hotel facility the victim was seen last”, he stated

“On interrogation, the hotelier admitted that the missing woman was in his hotel on that day on the invitation of her friend one Bose Fajebe, who came to the hotel with her boyfriend. The said Bose Fajebe invited the missing woman to join them, but as soon as she arrived, the hotelier picked interest in her and started having a romantic discussion with her”, the statement reads.

“While the two of them were discussing, Bose and her boyfriend left them and went away. The hotelier further explained that the missing woman also left not quite long after her friend had left, and later in the night, he also  left the hotel with two of his friends namely Saheed Yusuf and Michael Awodero to meet a herbalist   Azeez Raimi who is to carry out an Ifa divination ritual for them, and that they were all at the shrine throughout the night”.

“But contrary to his claim that the missing woman was not with them at the shrine, the Ifa priest confirmed that he saw the woman in the vehicle with Soneye Lateef and Yusuf Shaeed outside the shrine and that they later left with the lady in the night to somewhere he didn’t know, only for them to come back early in the morning without the lady”, police said.

“He also gave a vivid description of the woman he saw, and when her photograph was shown to him, he confirmed it as the woman he saw with Soneye Lateef and Yusuf Shaeed.

Awodero Michael also corroborated the herbalist statement that they were all at the shrine throughout the night, but the hotelier and his friend Shaeed who is an internet fraudster left the shrine with the woman in the night and came back in the morning without her”, Oyeyemi added.

Penpushing also reports that, the police spokesman said further investigation revealed that the woman must have been used for ritual purpose, adding that the Commissioner has ordered that the suspects be charged to court without further delay.

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