Detectives attached to the Homicide Section, Ogun State Police Command, are looking for a man who lured his best friend into a forest, killed him and abandoned his body there.
The incident occurred at Ibafo in Obafemi Owode Local Government Area of Ogun State. The fleeing suspect, identified simply as John, was said to have invited his friend, Idris Alaba, to a party, but later tricked him into a forest, where he used a plank to smash his head. The victim reportedly died instantly. Alaba’s murder was later discovered after police arrested John’s two children.
The suspect’s children had reportedly packed their belongings and were about to run away from the community when the residents apprehended them. They were later handed over to the police.
The residents said the deceased was the head of the vigilantes in the area. John’s children said they overheard their dad, telling somebody that Alaba was disturbing their business in the community. Alaba’s journey to the grave started on May 3, after John, a member of the vigilance group, invited him to a party in Sagamu.
The two men left Alaba’s residence on Ajemobi Street and rode on a motorcycle to the supposed function. The family of the deceased, however, became worried when their father did not return home. Anxious, they called his line, but it was switched off. They called John’s phone who told them that he left Alaba at the party. A family source said: “Alaba’s children said they were worried after speaking with John. He was the one that took their father to the party. They were also worried about the brusque way John spoke to them.”
A member of Alaba’s community said: “Immediately we rushed to John’s home on Ebute Ojora Road, we were shocked to find John’s two kids armed with their luggage. It was clear they were running away. “We apprehended and handed them over to the police at Ibafo Police Station. Youths who went there with us almost lynched the two kids.
“One of John’s children, David, pleaded with the angry residents. “The kids said they overheard their father say the late vigilante was preventing them from carrying out their ‘business’ in the community. He said they would deal with him.”
One of the vigilantes, Mr Amos Omoedo, said the children of the deceased called him and some other members of the group on Monday morning that they had been searching for their father since Sunday. He said: “It was when we got to Ibafo Police Station with family members of our boss, that the children of the suspect told the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) that their father took the victim to Makun forest in Sagamu.” Vigilantes from Ibafo, Abeokuta and Sagamu mobilised and went into the forest.
Omoedo added: “When we got there, it took us hours before we could enter the forest. The first thing we noticed in the forest was the footpath they took. We saw the motorcycle tracks.
We followed the tracks and traced the victim. We found him dead. The plank used in smashing his head was beside him.” Mr Kehinde David, a resident of the area, said: “We urged the Ogun State Commissioner of Police to fish out John and others who killed Alaba.”
The state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Mr Muyiwa Adejobi, confirmed the incident but said the suspect was still at large. The PPRO, however, promised that John would not escape the long arm of the law.
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