The alleged ritualist whom police initially accused of burying the woman and her daughter in his mansion’s living room has confessed.
In his confessional statement yesterday, the man identified as Azeez said he buried them alive after setting a trap for them on a sink hole.
The suspect accused the woman of threatening to kill him before carrying out the murder out of fear.
Read his confession below:
“I have been a traditional medical doctor for about 30 years, but I knew Angela a 65 year old over five years ago. She initially came to me for protection from family attacks. One of her friends called Lizzy introduced her to me. The relationship began to grow, and she kept patronising me for one thing or the other.
“Then, about three years ago, she mentioned her barreness problem, adding that the daughter that was with her was adopted. I was shocked. But when she told me her age, I told her it was impossible to make her pregnant. But she insisted that prophets in the churches she went had assured her she would get pregnant.”
“I did the normal concoction for her, but it didn’t work because of her age. But I collected the money because I knew if I did not, she would go to where they would collect it. After some months without result, she came to my place to complain. She then demanded a refund, but I told her that I could not repay it. She then began to threaten me. Within a month, I tried to repay N2.5m. On that fateful week, she came back for the remaining N6.5m.
“It was Saturday, May 17. She came with her daughter and insisted that she wanted her balance. She said as a retired customs officer, she could kill me if I didn’t pay back the money. Then I thought, I must kill this woman before she killed me. The hole at the back of my house was not built for killing. It was dug for drainage during rainfallss.”
“After we talked, we moved with her daughter to the place. I said she should kneel down on the mat with her daughter. She did so and fell into the pit with her daughter. The operation was successful because no member of my family was around in the house.
I then began to cover the pit up with sand. I poured in roughly 50 buckets of sand. The following day, I got two bricklayers to cement the portion. But I had first taken out the belongings she brought.”
The retired custom officer and her adopted daughter were reported missing on the 10 of May 2014 by the family. They filed a missing persons reported at the Oko Oba Police station.
The suspect was arrested through a tracking device installed on the victim’s Toyota Camry.
Azeez, an herbalist, had hypnotized the woman for a long time. He reportedly took over 200 million naira from her both in cash and property.
Police claimed he constructed a well in his house, lured the woman and her daughter into the room and buried them alive.
Here is a brief statement from the police;
“We were able to recover the decomposed bodies of the victims from the well. We also picked their property which was buried along with them. We have finished our investigations, and he will be charged to court for murder. We will leave the rest to be decided by the court.”
This is a real life story. Pls, what are the lessons from this?
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