The Lagos State Police
Command on Monday paraded a 64-year-old native doctor, Alhaji Olatunji Azeez,
who confessed to have killed a retired customs officer, Mrs. Angela Kerry, and
her 10-year-old adopted daughter, Obiagulum, on May 10, 2014.
PUNCH Metro had reported
on Monday that the decomposed bodies of the woman and her daughter were found
in Azeez’s house in Ire Akari Crescent, Ajuwon Akute, Ogun State by operatives
of the Lagos State Special Anti-Robbery Squad. The police subsequently marked
the building as a kidnapper’s den.
Azeez, an Oyo State
indigene with three wives and five children, said he was forced to kill the
customs officer and her daughter after she threatened to kill him over a sum of
money.
He explained, “I have
been a trado-medical doctor for about 30 years, but I knew Angela over five
years ago. She initially came to me for protection from family attacks. One of
her friends called Lizzy introduced her to me. The relationship began to grow,
and she kept patronising me for one thing or the other.
“Then, about three years
ago, she mentioned her barreness problem, adding that the daughter that was
with her was adopted. I was shocked. But when she told me her age, I told her
it was impossible to make her pregnant. But she insisted that prophets in the
churches she went had assured her she would get pregnant.”
Our correspondent learnt
that Azeez later lied to the woman that she would get pregnant and collected
N9m from her for the job.
Azeez added, “I did the
normal concoction for her, but it didn’t work because of her age. But I
collected the money because I knew if I did not, she would go to where they
would collect it. After some months without result, she came to my place to
complain. She then demanded a refund, but I told her that I could not repay it.
She then began to threaten me. Within a month, I tried to repay N2.5m. On that
fateful week, she came back for the remaining N6.5m.
“It was Saturday, May
17. She came with her daughter and insisted that she wanted her balance. She
said as a retired customs officer, she could kill me if I didn’t pay back the
money. Then I thought, I must kill this woman before she killed me. The hole at
the back of my house was not built for killing. It was dug for drainage during
rainfallss.”
Azeez added that he went
to the backyard, covered the hole with a white cloth that Angela normally saw
in another shrine in his house.
He said, “After we
talked, we moved with her daughter to the place. I said she should kneel down
on the mat with her daughter. She did so and fell into the pit with her
daughter. The operation was successful because no member of my family was
around in the house.
I then began to cover
the pit up with sand. I poured in roughly 50 buckets of sand. The following
day, I got two bricklayers to cement the portion. But I had first taken out the
belongings she brought.”
The Lagos State
Commissioner of Police, Umar Manko, stated that the police had concluded their
investigations on the case, adding that the native doctor was going to be
charged to court for murder.
He said, “The woman and
her daughter were reported missing on May 10 at the Oko Oba Police Division by
the family.
“Azeez was eventually
arrested through a tracking device installed on the victim’s Toyota Camry.
Azeez, an herbalist, had hypnotized the woman for a long time. He had taken
over N200m from her both in cash and property. We discovered he cleverly
constructed a well in his house, lured the woman with her daughter into the
room, and buried them alive.
“We were able to recover
the decomposed bodies of the victims from the well. We also picked their
property which was buried along with them. We have finished our investigations,
and he will be charged to court for murder. We will leave the rest to be
decided by the court.”
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