A couple, Mr Nasiru Adeyemo and his wife, Idayat, has
been arrested by the Ogun State Police Command for allegedly attempting to use
the man’s seven-year-old daughter, Abibat for ritual purpose.
It was learnt that Idayat was the girl’s stepmother.
It was learnt that
the couple was arrested following a distress call from members of the public
that a loaded sack was sighted by the roadside at Asabala area, on
Papalanto/Sagamu road.
Disclosing this in a press statement signed by him, the
Police Public Relations Officer in the state, ASP Abimbola Oyeyemi, said that
the information made the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) in charge of Owode
Egba Division, CSP Shehu Alao, to lead his men to the scene and they untied a
white rice sack found.
“To the shock of the police officers and men, they
discovered the seven-year-old girl with one of the fingers in her right hand
cut off. She was found tied in the sack, which was said to have been dumped at
the roadside since last Friday,” the PPRO revealed.
He stated further that when the police officers
discovered that the girl was still alive, she was rushed to a hospital for
medical attention.
It was further gathered that when she regained
consciousness, the girl told the police that her father and stepmother were the
ones who cut off one of her fingers before tying her and putting her inside the
sack, after which they dumped her by the roadside.
Oyeyemi said that the couple was arrested on Sunday and
had been undergoing interrogation.
He added that the Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Iliyasu
had ordered the transfer of the case to Anti-Kidnapping section for further
investigation and subsequent prosecution of the suspects.
Source:Tribune