Operatives of the Ogun State Police Command have apprehended two suspects in connection with the murders of 35-year-old Adijat Sulaimon and 28-year-old Sarah Abosede Olarewaju in the state.
According to The Guardian, it was reported that the suspects, identified as Adebayo Olamide Azeez, aged 35, and Mariam Awuraji, aged 38, were also implicated in the disappearance and ritual killings of women they met through hook-up apps in Lagos and Ogun states.
The Commissioner of Police (CP), Abiodun Alamutu, paraded the suspects yesterday at the command headquarters in Eleweran, Abeokuta, stating that their arrest followed an investigation into the killing of Adijat Sulaimon, who was initially reported missing at the Onipanu Division in Ogun State.
Alamutu said that on February 23rd, one Adebayo Olamide Azeez, was apprehended by police operatives through credible information about his criminal hideout. The arrested suspect, made a startling revelation on how they killed many people, mainly female victims he met through the hook-up platform, ‘mychat’, on social media.
The Commissioner of Police said, “Adebayo Olamide Azeez, confessed and gave vivid details of how he conspired with one Moses Abidemi Awuraji, and his wife, Maria, to kill one Adijat Sulaimon, ‘f’ and Sarah Abosede Olanrewaju, ‘f’ at the house of Moses Abidemi Awuraji, at Igbo Olomi Atan, Ogun State.”
Further talking, CP Alamutu said, “The suspects strangled their victims to death, dismembered their body parts, and sold them to Oluwo Monday Samuel, ‘m’, and Alfa Ariwo, ‘m’,(who is still at large) for ritual purposes.”
He added that the suspect, also confessed to the killing of ten different ladies, at the Igbo Olomi residence of Moses Abidemi by the couple.
Mariam Aruwaji, who happens to be the wife of Moses, was apprehended with one blue Tecno Camon phone, belonging to the late Sarah Abosede Olanrewaju.
