The Kogi State Police Command has arrested a 20-year-old boy, Jeremiah Samson for allegedly killing and dismembering a 19-year-old girl identified as Damilola for ritual purposes.
The State Police Spokesperson, William Aya, confirmed the arrest on Thursday in a telephone conversation.
Aya said that the suspect, Samson, was arrested on Wednesday in Lokoja and he currently being investigated.
He said that Samson had earlier kidnapped Damilola, a student of the Federal University, Lokoja, and collected 400,000 ransom from her parents.
“Investigation revealed that after collecting the money, he went ahead to strangle the victim, dismembered the body and buried her in a shallow grave.
“He confessed further that it was one herbalist simply identified as Arab Money, who he claimed to have contacted on Facebook who prescribed the ritual for him. The suspect hails from Kaduna South.
According to our informant, Samson said he decided to kill the victim after kidnapping her at Felele, around the school when she was trying to escape from captivity.
He said the victim was his first target but two bodies were exhumed at the scene, though the body of the first had decayed.
Police detectives exhumed the corpse of the victim with one other corpse buried by Samson in a bush along the NNPC filling station in Felele.
Aya said that the suspect would be charged in court as soon as the investigation is concluded.
