The police in Oyo have arrested a 37-year-old commercial motorcyclist for alle raping a 34-year-old woman and beheading her five-year-old son.
Commissioner of Police in the state Shina Olukolu, disclosed this on Friday while addressing newsmen at the headquarters of the command in Eleyele, Ibadan.
The suspect was paraded alongside 16 other suspects for offences including impersonation, attempted kidnapping and conspiracy to commit armed robbery.
According to the CP, the raped woman and her son boarded the motorcycle of the suspect from Oja-Oba market in Igbo-ora in Ibarapa local council of Oyo state on Dec. 8 at about 8:00 p.m.
He said the suspect diverted the woman and her son to his house at Imeleke road, Lawal Estate in Igbo-ora, and forcefully had unlawful carnal knowledge of her three times before daybreak.
Olukolu said further: “The following day, the suspect took the woman’s son to another room and beheaded him with cutlass.
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“He claimed to have dumped the remaining body at a nearby bush beside his house.
“The remaining body part was later recovered at the backyard of the suspect and deposited at the mortuary of the General Hospital for autopsy.”
Responding to questions from newsmen, the suspect who said he did not kill the boy for ritual purposes, said he was in a relationship the woman and had planned to marry her.
He said however that he did not know what came over him, prompting him to kill her son.
Three suspects were paraded for alleged impersonation.
They were to have presented themselves as officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
The CP said the suspects went to the house of one Ijadunola Olajide with fake EFCC identity cards and a search warrant with a view to intimidating and extorting money from him.
He said the victim, however, raised an alarm after discovering they were fake EFCC officials, leading to their arrest.
