The police in Lagos State have arrested a 23-year-old suspected cultist, Idris Adebayo, who confessed to have dropped the head of a rival cult member on the Old Apapa Road, in the Oyingbo area of the state.
Adebayo, who said he put the head in a polythene bag, added that the victim was killed by his gang members and the head dumped by the roadside because he came to visit his girlfriend in their territory.
It was reported on October 15, 2015, that some hoodlums at the Olokodana Junction of the road dropped a severed head.
The Iponri Police Division, where the matter was reported, was said to have removed the head and taken it to a morgue.
The police had launched a manhunt for the killers.
On Thursday Adebayo and Gafar Ayoola were both arrested by the Denton Police Division in the Otto area as two of the suspected killers.
It was gathered that Ayoola, during interrogation, developed a health condition and was rushed to a private hospital where he later died.
It was reported on Monday that his family members had, however, alleged that he was tortured to death by a policeman at the station.
Adebayo had been transferred to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Ikeja, where further investigation was ongoing on the matter.
Speaking with PUNCH Metro, Adebayo said his gang leader, identified as Dagbe, had killed the rival member and they dumped his body in a stream on San Siro Street, Otto.
He said, “We were four that killed the man. Dagbe, Aloma, Kashir and I ambushed him and cut off his head. His offence was that he came to our territory to visit his girlfriend. We thought he had come to spy on us.
“Dagbe gave the rival member’s head to me to dump at where people would see him. Two persons and I took a tricycle and when we got to Olokodana, I dropped the head from the polythene bag. The victim’s body had already been dumped in a stream.
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