PRIEST ARRESTED OVER DEATH OF SUSPECTED ‘WITCHCRAFT’ WOMAN
Oyeyemi stated further that when the deceased got to the shrine, the priest shaved her head and gave her a liquid substance to drink in order to deliver her from the alleged witch craft.
The Police image makers said, the deceased slumped and died immediately after taken the liquid substance,adding that on the strength of the report, the Divisional Police Officer Ago-Iwoye Division, Adeola Adedoyin led detectives to the shrine situated at Ojuolota area of Ijesha road in Ago-Iwoye where the priest was promptly arrested alongside with the father of the deceased.
Oyeyemi said, the Commissioner of Police Ahmed Iliyasu has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspects to homicide section of the State Criminal investigation, and intelligence department for proper investigation.
He added that the Commissioner of Police warned members of the public to desist from primitive and barbaric ways of dealing with matters especially issues that has to do with human life as the command will not tolerate such archaic life style, capable of terminating innocent people’s life unnecessarily.
