Homicide experts from the Osun State Police Command on Saturday exhumed the body of a final year student of the Lagos State University student (LASU), Miss Favour Daley-Oladele , who was murdered by a pastor, Segun Philips and her lover, Owolabi Adeeko, in Ikoyi-Ile, Osun State.
It would be recalled that the 42-year-old self-acclaimed pastor was arrested in December 2019 with Adeeko, 23 for killing the final year sociology student.
Adeeko had confessed to the police that he lured the 22-year-old victim to a white garment where he was allegedly assisted in the killing by Philip, who removed the girl’s heart and fed Adeeko and his mother with the concoction prepared with the organ.
He further stated that the deceased was his girlfriend and that he lured her to the church where he had perfected plans with the pastor to use her for money making ritual.
According to Punch, the state commissioner of police, Mr. Babatunde Kokumo, who led the team that exhumed the corpse, said the move would enable the police to conclude investigation into the matter.
While responding to questions from journalists, Philips said he killed the deceased to experiment with what he read in the ‘Seven Books of Moses.’
Philips, who was led around the scene of the crime alongside Adeeko, and his mother, Mrs Adeeko, said it was the first time he killed a person.
He added that late Favour was thrown into a half dug well where she was dismembered and some organs removed before she was buried.
Addressing journalists, at the scene of the crime, Kokumo, assured residents, who expressed concern over the incident and rained curses on the perpetrators that all churches in the neighbourhood would be investigated.
“We are all aware of the gruesome killing of a student of LASU. The killing has been traced to Ikoyi-Ile.
“We have brought our homicide experts to exhume and help in the furtherance of the investigations started by the Ogun State Police Command with a view to prosecuting the suspects.
“It is a gruesome murder and the whole thing is quite horrible. We will not fold our arms and watch lawless citizens take laws into their hands, destroying people’s lives. We have been informed that we have a number of churches in this community. It is our responsibility to conduct our investigation. What we are doing is intelligence policing driven by the people’s needs.
“If the communities are making us know that they are no longer comfortable with the number of churches or the caliber of such people running the churches, then it becomes our responsibility to conduct an investigation on their activities and check them.
“My advice is that parents have a lot of roles to play. We have a lot of children in schools; the parents owe them the responsibility to make to know that apart from their academic pursuit they must see to their moral training. It is only when the two are well combined that you can have a complete human being. They should see to the peer group they belong to,” he said.
