Ogun robbers kill Togolese girl for witnessing operation

Armed robbers have killed a ten-year-vintage Togolese woman for witnessing their operation in Ota, in the Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area of Ogun State.

Metro accrued that a pal of the sufferer’s mom despatched her to get charcoal at her residence on Kilani Street, within the Iyana Iyesi location of Ota, around 7am on Thursday.

On getting to the location, the minor met the suspects robbing the residence.

In a bid to cover the crime, the armed robbers killed the minor and fled the crime scene.

A neighbour, who spoke anonymously to our correspondent, alleged that the suspects were people who kill for ritual cause, including that they smashed the victim’s head with a pestle.

The supply said the female’s cry for help alerted neighbours to the incident, stating that she changed into dead earlier than they arrived on the scene.

A resident, who does now not need his call noted for safety motives, said the neighbours contacted the police however the suspects escaped earlier than they got to the scene.

“The police have taken away the frame of the sufferer. I understand the girl very well; we used to name her Mama. The suspect killed her in cold blood. At first, we notion it was a thief, however further findings discovered that the guy is a ritualist.

“When we searched in addition, we determined that the person had charms and a goat hidden in an empty building close to his victim’s residence. The goat attacked one of us, however it turned into later killed. This is a unhappy incidence,” the resident said.

Contacted, the nation Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, in his response to the incident, said the killers have been armed robbers, including that efforts had been directly to arrest the suspects.

He said, “It is authentic. The mom is a Togolese. She has a female buddy who’s a Ghanaian. It turned into the Ghanaian female that sent the lady to her house to get her charcoal.

“On attending to the residence, she met the robbers who recognized her and did now not need her to show them. They killed her. Our men have combed all the areas but had not were given them. The command will make certain they’re arrested.”