Police operatives in Osun have arrested three suspects linked to the killing of a senior officer of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) and her daughter in the state.
Commissioner of Police, Mr. Ibrahim Gotan, disclosed this at the command’s headquarters in Osogbo on Wednesday.
Gotan said the alleged mastermind of the crime was reported missing at Ikoyi Police Divisional Headquarters, after he left his house at Power-line Area of Osogbo for prayer activities at Ikoyi Prayer Mountain.
“Men of the Anti-kidnapping Squad carried out discreet investigation and found the suspect’s car, a Toyota Corolla Vaso, parked on Ibadan/Ife Expressway without knowing the location of the supposed missing man.
“In the effort to get him, the police on November 16, arrested one herbalist, called ‘Aberefa,’ who confessed that the missing person the police officers were looking for, was one of his customers.
“The herbalist explained that the suspect brought a woman and her daughter to him for money ritual on November 3, and that the woman (a senior FRSC officer) and her daughter had been killed.
“The herbalist, however, named three other suspects as the persons that actually killed the woman and her daughter.
“Furthermore, on November 17, the herbalist led detectives to Esa-Odo Dam, where the remains of the FRSC woman were dumped.
“Some vital parts, such as the head, breast, two hands, private parts and others were missing from the recovered body and deposited at the UniOsun Teaching Hospital morgue for autopsy,” the CP stated.