On Thursday, the Lagos State Police Command exhumed four bodies dumped in a septic tank in Ikorodu. A spokesperson for the Command, DSP Bala Elkana, said in a statement that the bodies had been recovered following a report by two Bureau-de-Change operators who were missing on March 14.
“On March 14 at about 5.30p.m., some unidentified persons approached one Alhaji Yakubu Musa and Alhaji Hassan Umaru and informed them that they have a relation who returned from overseas and need to sell $10,000.
They initially requested that payment will be made in a bank at Ikorodu but on getting to the bank, the suspects moved the operators to an unknown destination and started demanding for ransom from their friends and relatives.
Despite paying the sum of N1,600,000 as ransom, the abductors refused to release the victims and nothing more was heard from them. The victim’s phones remained switched off.
After an in-depth investigation, operatives from SARS arrested three suspects, namely; Oluwatosin Olanrewaju, Mayowa Olawuni a.k.a General and Babatunde Idris a.k.a Aloma.
The suspects confessed to the commission of the crime and led operatives to their den at Ikorodu where they dumped the corpses in a septic tank.
Two locally-made single barrel guns with five live cartridges, one locally made gun with three ammunition, one locally-made revolver pistol with three live ammunition, one cutlass, one ax, and some charms were recovered from them.
Investigation revealed that the suspects had at various times used an abandoned company as their den, where all their targets are killed and dumped in the septic tank,” he said.
Four decomposed bodies were recovered from the septic tank for autopsy. The suspects confessed to have killed two rival cult members and dumped them in the septic tank before killing the two BDC operators.
