The quartet of Balogun Mustakeem, 20, Majekodunmi Soliudeen, 18, Abdulgafa Lukman, 19, and Waris Oladeinde, 18, who confessed to killing a teenage friend for money ritual, have been remanded in Prison custody till March 14, 2022, by Magistrate I.O Abudu.
They were arraigned before a Magistrate Court in Abeokuta, Ogun State Capital, for killing, beheading and burning the head of Sofiat Kehinde on Saturday, 29 January, 2022 in an uncompleted building in Oke-Aregba Kugbe area of Abeokuta, Ogun State.
The suspects were charged on a two-count charge of conspiracy and murder.
Magistrate Abudu did not take the plea of the defendants to be released on bail by their Counsel, rather, she ordered that the suspects be remanded in prison custody.
Abudu ordered that the defendants be remanded in Oba Correctional Centre, pending legal advice from Ogun State Director of Public Prosecution (DPP).
The Prosecutor, Inspector Lawrence Balogun, told the Court that the defendants committed the offence on January, 28, at about 11:00pm at Oke-Aregba Kugbe area in Abeokuta.
Balogun alleged that the defendants conspired among themselves and murdered one Sofiat Kehinde who was a girl friend to one of the defendants, Soliudeen.
He said the defendants killed her by beheading her with a cutlass.
According to the Prosecutor, the defendants murdered sofiat with the plan to use her for money ritual.
The prosecutor, said that the offence committed contravened sections 324, 316 of the Criminal Code Laws of Ogun 2006.
