A team of Amotekun operatives attached to Imeko-Afon local government in Ogun state, have arrested two men identified as Akinyele Adebayo and Idowu Gbalo, for conspiracy and murder of one Umaru Aliu ‘M’ Alias “Lagi”, in Ijagure village on Sunday April 30.
A statement released by the CP of Amotekun in Ogun state, David Akinremi, states that while the deceased and one, Umaru Takake, were grazing their cattle in the bush near the aforementioned village, information has it that one Fagbemi Kareem ‘M’, now at large armed with a locally made single barrel gun and accompanied by four other persons, namely: Olorunto Segun ‘M’, Baba Shele ‘M’, Lana Ojugbele ‘M’ and Ashipa ‘M’, trailed the herders caught up with Umaru Aliu ‘M’ and allegedly shot him on a farmland belonging to one Chief Ogunlana Fagbemi ‘M’ Alias “Osewuya” at Ijagure village, while Umaru Takake ‘M’ narrowly escaped unhurt.
‘’On the same day at about 2000 hours, the duo of Olorunto Segun and Baba Shele allegedly contacted one Akinyele Adebayo ‘M’ to assist to dismember the corpse at the scene of crime and 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.”
The statement added that the prime suspects; Fagbemi Kareem ‘M’ and Baba Shele ‘M’, have been arrested by men of the Ijio Police Division, Oyo State for the same offence, while Lana Ojugbele, Olorunto Segun and Ashipa are still at large.
