Members of a community vigilance team have arrested a 32-year-old suspected ritual killer in Ilorin, Kwara State. The suspect was apprehended on Sunday night around Mejindadi Street, Ilorin, while he was allegedly attempting to transfer his victim, an old woman, to his herbalist. The man, simply identified as Kelechi, was said to have told the vigilantes that he was taking the woman to the hospital for medical attention until further probing in the presence of a police patrol team that came to the scene proved otherwise.
The woman was suspected to have been kidnapped around Agbabiaka, Ago Market and kept somewhere around Unity Road before luck ran out on the kidnapper when membersof Ita-Amoducommunity surveillance team accosted him. The popular herbalist (name withheld), who resides around Agbo- Oba area, was said to have asked Kelechi to bring a lady to perfect his ritual plans. A member of the team, who spoke to journalists on condition of anonymity, claimed Kelechi confessed to them that he wanted to use the old woman for ritual to start his business. He said: “We saw the guy (Kelechi) backing an old woman around 11:30pm on Sunday.
He was tired and we tried to assist him. Then we asked him what happened to the woman because she looked frail and emaciated. We thought he was taking her to a hospital around Oja- Iya.” “He started responding in Pidgin English while the woman was just saying Agbabiaka, somewhere around Ago Market.”
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