Kogi state police
command is investigating the alleged involvement of a serving councillor with
the beheading of a seventeen year old girl.
Announcing this in
Lokoja, the State Police Commissioner, Hilary Opara, said the councillor
contacted three people to carry out the act for ritual purposes.
Mr. Opara said Hon. Yahaya Isa who
is a serving councillor in Aloji ward in Ofu local government area of Kogi
state had on the 13th of June, contracted Suleiman Yunusa, Isiaka John, and
Alifa Maha to get him the head of a 17 years old girl idenfified as Igbere
Ogbadu, for an undisclosed sum of money.
The Kogi State Police Commissioner said
the suspects confessed to the crime and that the decomposing body of the
victims, was recovered between Ofoja and Achigili village in Ofu Local Council
Area of the state.
Mr Opara also paraded a five man kidnap
gang believed to have masterminded the abduction of the paramount ruler of
Ejule, chief Simon Shaibu.
The traditional ruler was accused
of facilitating the arrest of their member, Mudi Ibrahim, at the Chari Megumeri
barracks, Lokoja, when he sought to be enlisted into the Nigerian Army.
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