The police command in Kogi state have arrested a middle
aged man, Mr Hosea Folorunsho in Egbe town of Yagba West local government
council for the alleged gruesome murder of his son for ritual purpose.
Briefing journalists on the arrest in Lokoja, the
Kogi state capital, the Commissioner of Police, Mr Mohammed Katsina says the
suspect, a herbalist, also buried the child in a shallow grave in his own
compound.
The state’s Commissioner of Police, Mohammed Katsina
while parading the suspect, Chief Hosea Folorunsho, at the state command
headquarters, Lokoja-the state capital, disclosed that on the 31st of December
2012, the herbalist killed his son for alleged ritual.
Narrating the police investigation, the police boss,
Mr Katsina disclosed that on the New Year’s Eve, at about 11:55PM, the suspect
quietly took the baby named Sunday Folorunsho who was asleep in the middle of
the night and murdered him in gruesome circumstances.
He added that having accomplished his mission, the
suspect dug a shallow grave in his compound and hurriedly buried the corpse of
the baby. Continue after the cut... And also watch the Channel TV video.
The police escorted Mr Folorunsho to his compound
where the baby’s corpse was buried and he was then asked to exhume the corpse.
Digging out the corpse of the baby, he handed over
the body to a pathologist who conducted an autopsy on the dead baby.
The autopsy result read that the child died of
multiple fractures through the application of blunt object and trauma.
The 48 year old suspect, a native of Egbe in Yagba
West Local Government Area (LGA) of the state is married with three other kids.
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