KOGI: 20-YEAR-OLD BOY ARRESTED FOR KILLING, HARVESTING FEMALE STUDENT’S ORGANS FOR RITUAL

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A 20-year-old man, identified as Jeremiah Paul has been arrested for killing and dismembering a 19-year-old female student, known as Damilola.

According to sources, Jeremiah who’s a 100l student of the Federal University, Lokoja, kidnapped Damilola and demanded a ransom from her parents.

Reports indicate that the suspect, who hails from Kaduna State, allegedly abducted her and took her to an uncompleted building. After receiving a ransom of N400,000 from her family, he killed her and removed her vital organs for ritual purposes.

Following the murder, the suspect reportedly contacted her family again, demanding an additional N10 million. However, he was tracked down and arrested by the police.

Confirming the tragic incident, the State Police Public Relations Officer, William Aya, disclosed on Thursday, that the suspect, Jeremiah Paul, was arrested on Wednesday in Lokoja and he is currently being investigated.

He said that Samson had earlier kidnapped the victim identified as Damilola, a student of the Federal University, Lokoja, and collected N400,000 from her parents.

“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 TikTok who prescribed the ritual for him. The suspect hails from Kaduna South.

According to reports, Samson said he decided to kill 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.