Olu Samuel, Lokoja

The Kogi state police command has nfirmed the arrest of a 20 year old boy for killing and dismembering a 19 year old girl allegedly for ritual purpose.

The Kogi state police command public relations officer,SP William Aya disclosed this while speaking to our Correspondent on Thursday in a telephone conversation.

Aya said that the suspect, Jeremiah Samson 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, demanded and collected N400,000 from her parents.

“Investigation revealed that after collecting the money,he went ahead to strangle the victims dismenbered 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 that prescribed the ritual for him. The suspect hails from Kaduna South.

According to our informant, 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 decade.

Meanwhile, police detectives in company of the suspect have exhumed the corpse of the victim with one other corpse buried by Samson in a bush along NNPC filling station in Felele Aya said that the suspect will be charged to court as soon as investigation is concluded.