The lifeless body of a four-year-old missing child was, at the early
hours of yesterday, found close to a shrine at Iwaya area of Lagos, with
her throat slashed.
The toddler, Farida Ayomide Suleiman, who was suspected to have been
used for ritual at the shrine, was last seen on Tuesday in the company
of her siblings, going to a mosque around the area.
Form the mosque, they were said to have gone to a family friend’s house.
However, apprehension set in when Ayomide was discovered to have
disappeared, a development that led to a search around the area.
Hours later, an alarm raised by the girl’s mother alerted tenants of 28
Ogbe Close, who discovered the body of her missing daughter behind her
window where the shrine is located.
Briefing journalists on the incident, Commissioner of Police, Lagos
State Police Command, Fatai Owoseni, who visited the scene, said 10
persons, including parents of the deceased toddler, are in Police
custody.
Owoseni said: “The DPO of Sabo Division alerted me at the early hours of
this morning (yesterday) that a couple came to the station to say that
their missing child’s body was found behind their window, near an Ogun
shrine, with her throat slashed.
“I was at the scene till 4a.m. with detectives. We have recovered the
corpse and also saw the tool with which she was murdered- a knife.
“Ten persons, including parents of the deceased, have been taken into
custody for interrogation. We are not saying categorically that they
killed the child; the shrine has been in the compound for years.
“If there is no conspiracy of silence, the tenants would have known that sacrifices have been going on in the shrine.
“The owner of the compound was worshipping in the shrine before he died.
After his demise, we gathered that people used to come to worship at
the shrine.”
Mother’s story
When Vanguard arrived the scene, it was observed that the building has been condoned off by policemen even as the occupants have fled.
The bereaved mother, Mrs Bunmi Suleiman, told Vanguard: “When news of
her disappearance reached me, we started looking for her. At about
8p.m., I went to the back yard to fetch water for ablution before going
to pray.
“That was when I noticed something on the ground, which I thought was a
bucket of water. But when I flashed my torchlight, I discovered to my
astonishment that it was my daughter. I screamed; my husband rushed out
and alerted other tenants. We rushed our child to the hospital, where we
were told that she had died.
“We moved into the compound three years ago. We usually see people
coming to worship at the shrine, but never have we seen nor heard that
they sacrificed human beings in the shrines. What they use as sacrifice
are dogs.
“Yesterday (Tuesday), a man and a woman came with a chicken to sacrifice
on the shrine. They called one of the children to help them kill the
chicken, but he refused.
By the time the third child refused, they left only to come back at
night to use my child to replace the cock that was to be used for
sacrifice, with her blood spilled in the shrine.
“I don’t know those who usually come to worship here. After the death of
our landlord, his children worshipped at the shrine, but they do not
live here; they only come to collect house rent from us.
“Other people also come to worship and leave. There is no particular person that says at the shrine.”
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