Ogun Amotekun nabs two over murder of Fulani herder
Operatives of the Ogun State Security Network Agency (Amotekun Corps) have arrested two persons, identifed as Akinyele Adebayo (49) and Idosu Gbalo (30), at Ijagure village, in Sagada area of Imeko -Afon Area of the state, over the murder of a Fulani herder, Umaru Aliu.
The state Commandant of Amotekun Corps, CP David Akinremi (rtd), in a statement made available to Salient Times, said the suspects conspired and murdered Aliu, on a farmland belonging to Chief Ogunlana Fagbemi.
While Aliu was unlucky, his co-herder, identified as Umaru Takake escaped the scene of the incident unhurt.
The incident, it was gathered happened on Sunday 30th April, 2023, while the deceased and his colleague were grazing their cattle in the bush near the village.
Akinremi further said that
one Fagbemi Kareem (now at large) armed with a locally made single barrel gun was accompanied by four other persons, namely: Olorunto Segun; Baba Shele; Lana Ojugbele and Ashipa trailed the herders, and allegedly shot him on a farmland belonging to one Chief Ogunlana Fagbemi, while Takake narrowly escaped unhurt.
The statement reads, “On the same day at about 2000hours, the duo of Olorunto Segun and Baba Shele allegedly contacted one Akinyele Adebayo to assist in dismembering the corpse at the scene of crime.
“He obliged in the presence of other cohorts. While Baba Shele took away the head of the deceased to unknown destination.
“Thereafter, the remaining parts of the dismembered body was packed in a sack and buried in a pit near Oyan River at Oke-Ayo village in Imeko.
“The two arrested suspects on further interrogation admitted their various roles in the dastardly criminal act and took operatives of the Corps to the scene where the remaining parts of the body were dumped with several parts missing.
“Meanwhile, the prime suspects; Fagbemi Kareem ‘M’ and Baba Shele ‘M’ were said to have been arrested by Ojio Police Division, Oyo State for the same offence, while Lana Ojugbele, Olorunto Segun and Ashipa are still at large.
“Consequently, the suspects Akinyele Adebayo and Idosu Gbalo are being transferred to Ogun State Police Headquarters, Eleweran, Abeokuta for further action and prosecution.”
