The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a herbalist, Alhaji Olatunji Azeez, who allegedly buried alive a retired female officer of the Nigeria Customs Service whose identity was given as Angelo Kerry, and her 10-year-old adopted daughter; Obralulum Kerry.
Azeez was alleged to have killed the retired Customs officer and her daughter because he reportedly owed them millions of naira and was finding it difficult to pay.
The officer-in-charge of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Ikeja, Lagos State, SP Abba Kyari, confirmed the development.
The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a herbalist, Alhaji Olatunji Azeez, who allegedly buried alive a retired female officer of the Nigeria Customs Service whose identity was given as Angelo Kerry, and her 10-year-old adopted daughter; Obralulum Kerry.
Azeez was alleged to have killed the retired Customs officer and her daughter because he reportedly owed them millions of naira and was finding it difficult to pay.
The officer-in-charge of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Ikeja, Lagos State, SP Abba Kyari, confirmed the development.
Abba KyariKyari said it was a case of ritual murder.
He said: “On June 20, 2014, sequel to the disappearance of the victim, Mrs. Angelo Kerry, 68 years, a retired Customs Officer, and her 10-year-old daughter, Obralulum Kerry, on May 10, 2014 and the subsequent arrest of one Alhaji Olatunji Azeez, a herbalist, who took the victim’s Toyota Camry to sell after her disappearance.
“Upon thorough interrogation in SARS, the suspect, Alhaji Olatunji, who had earlier sold several properties of the victim running into hundreds of millions and converted the money to his own use, cracked and confessed that he killed the victim and her 10-year-old daughter and buried them in his house at No 9 Wadoye Street, Pipeline, Ajuwon Area of Ogun State because the victim was pressuring him to produce her money.
“Suspect immediately led SARS detectives to the said house where the two dead bodies were exhumed from a 30meters deep well he purposely dug for the burying of the victims.
“Corpses of the victims are kept at Yaba Mainland Hospital for autopsy.
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