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Mr Hosea Folorunsho digging out the corpse of his buried son
in his compound
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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 said 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 corps of the baby.
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.
Credit: Channels Television
Animal in human skin. Justice should prevail!
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