The police in Ogun State said they have arrested four men in connection with the ‘sudden disappearance of a 36-year-old woman, Aminat Adebayo. The lady said woman got missing on the on September 15, 2022.
The statement by the police spokes person in the state SP Abimbola Oyeyemi identified the suspects as Azeez Raimi, 21, Yusuf Saheed, 33, Awodero Michael, 27 and Soneye Lateef, 39, got arrested . Reports that their arrest followed a complaint lodged at the Sagamu Divisional Police Headquarters by the victim’s elder brother, Ahmed Adebayo, who told the police that his sister left home on September 15 and never returned.
The Ogun State Commissioner of Police, Lanre Bankole, had subsequently directed the anti-kidnapping unit of the State CIID “to unravel the mystery behind the sudden disappearance of the woman.”
In conformity with the directive of the Commisioner, Oyeyemi said the Supol Taiwo Opadiran-led team’s technical investigation led the police team to one Soneye Lateef, who is the owner of the hotel where the woman was last seen.
On interrogation, the hotelier admitted that the missing woman was in his hotel on that day on the invitation of her friend one Bose Fajebe, who came to the hotel with her boyfriend. The said Bose Fajebe invited the missing woman to join them, but as soon as she arrived, the hotelier picked interest in her and started having a romantic discussion with her.
While the two of them were discussing, Bose and her boyfriend left them and went away.
Lateef claimed the victim also left a few minutes later, while he and his two friends, Saheed Yusuf and Michael Awodero went to see a herbalist named Azeez Raimi, where they stayed overnight to carry an Ifa ritual.
“But contrary to his claim that the missing woman was not with them at the shrine, the Ifa priest confirmed that he saw the woman in the vehicle with Soneye Lateef and Yusuf Saheed outside the shrine, saying they later left with the lady in the night to somewhere he didn’t know, only for them to come back early in the morning without the lady,” the police spokesperson narrated.
The herbalist further gave a vivid description of the woman he saw in the car and confirmed she was the same person in the photograph shown to him.
Oyeyemi further stated: “Awodero Michael also corroborated the herbalist’s statement that they were all at the shrine throughout the night, but the hotelier and his friend Saheed, who is an internet fraudster, left the shrine with the woman in the night and came back in the morning without her. Further investigation revealed that the woman must have been used for ritual purposes.”