Matilda Omonaiye/
Two teenage brothers have been held by the police in Lagos for allegedly beheading a 10-year-old boy after receiving N200, 000 from a man who needed two fresh human heads.
Lagos State police spokesman, CSP Chike Oti told NewsmakersNG in a statement that the suspects identified as 18-year-old Ayodeji Obadimeji and Saheed Obadimeji were caught with the victim’s head at about 10:30 pm on November 27, by a team of Anti-kidnapping personnel of the Lagos State Police Command on routine patrol between Ajah/Epe Expressway.
According to the police, the suspects who live on Tunde Balogun Street, Shapati, Ibeju-Lekki confessed during interrogation that one Sodiq Abefe contracted them to provide him with human head at the cost of N200, 000, hence they lured the victim by sending him to buy Coca-Cola drink for them and when he brought the drinks to them, they held him and cut off his head with a knife.
Oti said: “The victim has been identified by his parents as Joseph Makinde, male, aged 10 years.
“The torso has been recovered from an uncompleted building located at Shapati and effort is being made to arrest the said Sodiq Abefe who allegedly contracted the duo to commit the heinous crime.
“Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police has directed that the case is handed over to the Homicide section of the State Criminal Investigation And Intelligence Department (SCIID) Panti Yaba for further investigation.
“The CP Lagos reiterated his earlier warnings to criminals to repent or relocate from the state or regret the consequence of their action.”
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