The Department of State Services (DSS), Osun State Command, has apprehended a herbalist, simply identified as Jelili, who is popularly known as Ifa (oracle) and a commercial driver, Elijah Oyebode for allegedly kidnapping and killing a 400 Level student of Osun State University, Osogbo, Adebisi Rofiat Damilola.
Oyebode, in his statement confessed that the herbalist had approached him to get a young female for ritual purpose, with a promise of N10,000 (Ten Thousand Naira)
According to him, Damilola boarded his vehicle from Ipetu-Ijesa to Osogbo while returning from the Ipetu-Ijesa campus of UNIOSUN where the lady was studying Science Education.
Oyebode in his words got the lady hypnotised and took her to the herbalist who used her for ritual purpose and eventually dropped her corpse by the road side.
Damilola had left Ipetu-Ijesa for Osogbo on December 22nd, 2016, and got missing along the way, after which her corpse was later recovered on the roadside along Ikirun/Iragbiji road few days later.
“Ifa had given me a charm that I will use to hypnotise any lady that I want to bring;j he said once I put the charm in my pocket, I only need to have body contact with the lady and she would be hypnotised.
“The charm was already in my pocket when I saw the lady and I ensured that my body touched her, from there, she didn’t know anything again.
“After dropping other passengers at the various destinations, I took the lady to Ifa at his house in Ikirun and he received her and gave me N10,000”, he confessed.
However, a top DSS official disclosed that there was incriminatory evidence against the herbalist.
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