•It’s not true - Councillor
BARELY two months after he was declared winner of the recently conducted LG election in Kogi State as a councillor, Yahaya Isah allegedly asked three of his friends, Suleiman Yunusa (35) Isiaka Yunusa (23) and Alifa Maha (17) to bring the head of his girlfriend, 17-year-old Igbere Ogbadu.
Nigerian Tribune gathered that the head was for money-making rituals.
The men got the fresh head of Ogbadu but were all arrested by the
Kogi Police Command when Ogbadu’s parent raised the alarm when the girl
could not be found.
The decomposing, headless body of the girl was later found between Achigili and Ofoja village in Ofu Local Government.
Hon. Yahaya Isah however denied knowledge of the dastardly act.
The leader of the three-man gang told the Nigerian Tribune that, “
it was the Councillor that sent us to bring the head of the girl but did
not tell us what he was going to do with it.”
Explaining how they perpetrated the dastardly act, he said, “the girl
was too close to the Councillor as he always beckoned to her anytime
she passes in front of his house. He directed us to go and do it. I went
to her house to pick her without knowing that people were watching me
when we were leaving. I carried her on my motorcycle and headed for
Ofoja village. However between Achigili and Ochoja villages, we
strangulated her to death.
Three of us did that. .After the strangulation I brought out a
very sharp knife with which l cut off her head. She struggled with us
but unfortunately for her we overpowered her,” he stated further.
The man at the center of the whole saga, Hon Yahaya Isah, however
denied it saying, ” how would l have asked those boys to go and cut the
head of the girl for me? What am l going to do with it as a councillor? I
never did it.”
Parading the suspects, the State Commissioner of Police, Hilary Opara
told newsmen that “ on June 6 at about 2100 hrs one of the suspects,
Suleiman Yunusa, came to the family of the deceased, Miss Igbere Ogbadu
,and took her away without the knowledge of the latter’s family. And on
21-06-2013 a decomposing body of the lady was found between Achigili and
Ofoja villages in Ofu Local Government Area with the head cut off and
some parts removed.
“On receiving this information, the first suspect, Suleiman Yunusa
was arrested and he confessed to have killed the lady on 13-6- 2013 with
the Assistance of other suspects, Alifa Maha and Isiaka Yunusa
respectively who are both from Ofojo village in Ofu local Government
Area. The suspects alleged that Hon Yahaya the councillor representing
Alojim ward in Ofu Local Government Area contracted them to provide
human head for him. They would soon be arraigned in court.”
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