A middle-aged man, who allegedly beheaded a two-year old boy in Ofada village, Owode-Egba in Obafemi Owode Local Government Area of Ogun State is cooling off in police net.
According to the state Police Command, the 37-year-old suspect identified as Mamodu, is a Nigerien and he allegedly committed the crime shortly before he raped the mother of the boy.
Mamodu was said to have committed the crime on Wednesday, while the woman was easing herself in a bush in the town.
According to eyewitness account, the suspect pounced on her with the baby tied to her back and dragged the duo into an uncompleted building.
“It was in the building that he raped the woman, stabbed her and killed the boy before he severed his head from his body,” the source said.
It was further gathered that the suspect, whose activities had been under close watch, was later trailed to the building but he escaped.
“Although he escaped from the scene of the crime, he was later arrested at Ibafo within the same council area during which he confessed to the crime,” the witness told journalists.
Confirming the incident, the Police Public Relations Officer, Muyiwa Adejobi said the suspect was arrested with the help of some community leaders in Ibafo.
According to him, further interrogation of the suspect revealed that he had sold the head of the boy to a woman in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital.The PPRO who said the command had commenced discrete investigations, assured said that detectives were on the trail of the buyer of the boy’s head.
At the scene of the crime yesterday, the suspect confirmed raping the woman as well as killed her son by severing his head which he admitted he later threw into the bush.He also informed the detectives that there was a woman in Ibadan, whom she was working with.
Daily Sun learnt that the remains of the boy had been buried while the raped -mother is said to be responding to medical treatment at an undisclosed hospital in the state.
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