- Aya said that the suspect was arrested on Wednesday in Lokoja and he is currently being investigated.
One Jeremiah Samson has allegedly killed and dismembered a 19-year-old girl for ritual purposes in Kogi State.
The victim identified as Damilola was a student of the Federal University, Lokoja.
20-year-old Samson was said to have kidnapped the victim, demanded and collected N400,000 from her parents.
The State Police Public Relations Officer, William Aya, confirmed the development, saying the suspect has been arrested.
Aya said that the suspect was arrested on Wednesday in Lokoja and he is currently being investigated.
“Investigation revealed that after collecting the money, he went ahead to strangle the victim, dismembered the body and buried her in a shallow grave.
“He confessed further that it was one herbalist simply identified as Arab Money, who he claimed to have contacted on Facebook who prescribed the ritual for him. The suspect hails from Kaduna South.” Aya said
The suspect said he killed the victim after kidnapping her at Felele, around the school when she was trying to escape from captivity.
He said the victim was his first target but two bodies were exhumed at the scene, though the body of the first had decayed.
Police detectives exhumed the corpse of the victim with one other corpse buried by Samson in a bush along the NNPC filling station in Felele.
Aya said that the suspect would be charged in court as soon as the investigation is concluded
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