Ogun Police Apprehends Man For Dismembering 71-Year-Old

A man, Dauda Bello, has been arrested by operatives of the Ogun State Police Command for the alleged killing of 71-year-old Adisa Mesesi.

Bello, who is 54 years old, was arrested on July 6, 2022, after he cut off the victim's wrists and ankles.

"The suspect was arrested following the sudden disappearance of the victim, who left home since on the 8th of June 2022 and didn't return home.

"The relation of the victim then reported a case of missing person at Sabo/Ilupeju police station.

"The case was later transferred to the anti-kidnapping unit of the state criminal investigation department where technical and an intelligence-based investigation was embarked upon.

"In the course of an investigation, the SP Taiwo Opadiran-led team traced the last place visited by the victim to be the house of the suspect at Olodo area of Imala.

"The suspect was subsequently arrested and taken into custody for investigation.

"On interrogation, the suspect confessed to have known the victim for quite some time now, and that they were both into the business of child trafficking.

"He stated further that he invited the victim on that fateful day to discuss their usual business, but on getting to his house, he discovered that the victim came with what he thought was a huge amount of money.

"This made him to hit the woman on the head with a heavy wooden stick, which made the woman to be unconscious after which he carried the unconscious body of the victim to the bush where he finally snuffed life out of her," Abimbola Oyeyemi, the Ogun Police Command spokesperson stated.

Oeyeyemi stated that Bello confessed that when he searched the woman's body, he discovered that the victim only had the sum of N22,200 with her, which he took with disappointment.

"Having realised that his aim of getting much money from the victim was in vain, he decided to cut off her two wrists and ankles, which he claimed to have been sold to somebody who is now at large."

Oyeyemi revealed that the suspect had taken the Police to the bush where he buried the victim in a shallow grave after he dismembered her body.