Man Buries Nine-Year-Old With 1000 Note In Kwara State

• The Kwara State Police Command has arrested a man, Alade James, for allegedly killing and burying a nine-year-old girl, Faith Samuel.

The police disclosed that James buried the girl in Offa, a Local Government Area of Kwara State with the aim of using her for money ritual, EkohotBlog reports.

Kwara State Police Public Relations Officer, Ajayi Okasanmi, established in a statement on Sunday that operatives who exhumed the corpse discovered that it was buried with a N1,000 note.

The statement reads “Around 6.12pm of Saturday, September 25, 2021, acting on actionable intelligence, a team of policemen arrested a man, Alade James of Alawe compound, Offa, in the process of burying a corpse in the Ikotun area of Offa. Preliminary investigation revealed that the suspect had killed and buried the nine-year-old girl, Faith Samuel, of Onireke area Offa.

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“The corpse was recovered with a N1,000 note buried with it. The body was deposited at a mortuary for an autopsy after a doctor certified the girl dead,” he added.

Okasanmi said the suspect admitted to killing the girl for ritual purposes.

He stressed further that “The parents of the deceased have been contacted, while the Commissioner of Police, Kwara State, Tuesday Assayomo, has ordered a discreet investigation into the murder.”