The suspects identified as Azeez Raimi, 21, Yusuf Saheed, 33, Awodero Michael, 27, and Soneye Lateef, 39, were arrested following a complaint lodged at the police station by the elder brother of the victim, one Ahmed Adebayo, who reported that the victim left home since on the September 15 and her whereabout has been unknown since then.
According to a statement by the spokesperson of the command, SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, investigation led police detectives to one Soneye Lateef an hotelier, whose hotel facility the victim was seen last. On interrogation, the hotelier admitted that the missing woman was in his hotel on that day on the invitation of her friend one Bose Fajebe, who came to the hotel with her boyfriend.
The said Bose invited the missing woman to join them, but as soon as she arrived, the hotelier picked interest in her and started having a romantic discussion with her. While the two of them were discussing, Bose and her boyfriend left them and went away.
The hotelier further explained that the missing woman also left not quite long after her friend had left, and later in the night, he also left the hotel with two of his friends namely Saheed -an internet fraudster and Michael Awodero to meet a herbalist, Azeez Raimi, who was to carry out an Ifa divination rit¥Al for them, and that they were all at the shrine throughout the night.
However, contrary to his claim that the missing woman was not with them at the shrine, the Ifa priest confirmed that he saw the woman in the vehicle with Soneye and Saheed outside the shrine and that they later left with the lady in the night to somewhere he didn’t know, only for them to come back early in the morning without the lady. Michael also corroborated the herbalist statement.
