Men attached to the Ondo State Police Command have discovered a hideout where suspected ritual killers keep their victims. They have consequently arrested five persons in the process.
The hideout, according to the police is located at Ago Oyinbo Community in the Okitipupa Local Government Area of the state.
According to the police, investigation shows that the alleged killers had been using the hideout to slaughter their victim’s after been kidnapped.
It was gathered that the youths of the community reported the activities going on in the said hideout to the police, and they stormed the village, rounding up five people in connection with the crime, while the building was demolished by the youths.
The Baale of the Ago Oyinbo, Chief Moyebi Okeowo, while commenting on the incident disclosed that the suspected ritual killers started using the house since 2012, adding that the suspects came to him to beg for a space in the village, claiming that they wanted a location to shoot a movie.
He said, “They came to me to beg for a piece of land to shoot their film. I told them I was not the owner of the land and I took them to the brother of the landlord of the land who then took them to the wife of the landlord in Akure.
“I learnt they were authorised by the wife of the landlord to use the land and since then they have been using the land. I told their leader to go and report their activities to the police and he later informed me that he had done so.”
The Baale further added that he was unaware of the activities of the suspects until last Monday when he was told that the suspects were slaughtering human beings on the land.
The State Police Public Relations Officer, Mr Wole Ogodo, however said he has not been briefed about the incident.
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