TWO PASTORS ARRESTED FOR ALLEDGEDLY BEHEADING FEMALE CHURCH MEMBER FOR RITUALS

“The case was reported by one Adebola Saheed that his younger sister,  Raliat Sanni left home since 21st March and had yet to return. On the strength of the report, our operatives at Ewekoro Division led by the Divisional Police Officer, OluwarotimiJeje, swung into action and embarked on technical intelligence investigation.”

The police boss disclosed that the suspects were arrested following a discreet analysis of facts surrounding the disappearance of the victim, adding that the first suspect was the last person that had contact with her.

He spoke further  that the pastor  in the course of interrogation, confessed killing the victim and buried her inside his church after removing her head and two hands for reasons only ‘’known to him and God.”, and that the suspect also mentioned his accomplice as Pastor Daniel Sopeju of Iyana  Egbado.

The Commissioner described the act as the height of wickedness, noting that the victim was a ‘secret lover’ of the firs suspect  who reportedly hacked her to death. He said forensic investigation into the case has commenced, with declaration that the case will be charged to court on completion of investigations.

However, the alleged first suspect (Ipense) while speaking with journalists denied the allegation that he killed the victim, but said his accomplice, Sopeju, killed her, with further claimed that Sopeju led seven members of an occultic group to his house with the aim of luring him to become a member.

Ipense who claimed to be a Teacher at one of the secondary schools in the community, said, the group had earlier asked him to submit names of his church members and ended up picking Raliat.

 “It was not true that I killed a woman, it was one Mr Sopeju Daniel and a woman wanted to make me join their occultic group and they said that they are going to collect a ransom.So they collected the names of my members and picked the name of Raliat Sanni. Having mentioned her name, they asked me where she was living and I told them she is living at Wasimi. They later got her and brought her to my church.  Mr Sopeju brought out   a knife and beheaded the woman and after beheading her, he collected her blood and put it in seven calabashes”.

He further explained that the group told him that the severed head and hands would be shared by members of the ocultic group, but when Sopeju was confronted with the allegation he denied but, however, admitted that they all belonged to white garment churches in the area.