The Lagos State Police Command on
Monday paraded a 64-year-old native doctor, Alhaji Olatunji Azeez, who
confessed to have killed a retired customs officer, Mrs. Angela Kerry, and her
10-year-old adopted daughter, Obiagulum, on May 10, 2014.
PUNCH Metro had reported on Monday that
the decomposed bodies of the woman and her daughter were found in Azeez’s house
in Ire Akari Crescent, Ajuwon Akute, Ogun State by operatives of the Lagos
State Special Anti-Robbery Squad. The police subsequently marked the building
as a kidnapper’s den.
Azeez, an Oyo State indigene with three
wives and five children, said he was forced to kill the customs officer and her
daughter after she threatened to kill him over a sum of money.
He explained, “I have been a
trado-medical doctor for about 30 years, but I knew Angela over five years ago.
She initially came to me for protection from family attacks. One of her friends
called Lizzy introduced her to me. The relationship began to grow, and she kept
patronising me for one thing or the other.
“Then, about three years ago, she
mentioned her barreness problem, adding that the daughter that was with her was
adopted. I was shocked. But when she told me her age, I told her it was
impossible to make her pregnant. But she insisted that prophets in the churches
she went had assured her she would get pregnant.”
Our correspondent learnt that Azeez
later lied to the woman that she would get pregnant and collected N9m from her
for the job.
Azeez added, “I did the normal
concoction for her, but it didn’t work because of her age. But I collected the
money because I knew if I did not, she would go to where they would collect it.
After some months without result, she came to my place to complain. She then
demanded a refund, but I told her that I could not repay it. She then began to
threaten me. Within a month, I tried to repay N2.5m. On that fateful week, she
came back for the remaining N6.5m.
“It was Saturday, May 17. She came with
her daughter and insisted that she wanted her balance. She said as a retired
customs officer, she could kill me if I didn’t pay back the money. Then I
thought, I must kill this woman before she killed me. The hole at the back of
my house was not built for killing. It was dug for drainage during rainfallss.”
Azeez added that he went to the
backyard, covered the hole with a white cloth that Angela normally saw in
another shrine in his house.
He said, “After we talked, we moved
with her daughter to the place. I said she should kneel down on the mat with
her daughter. She did so and fell into the pit with her daughter. The operation
was successful because no member of my family was around in the house.
I then began to cover the pit up with
sand. I poured in roughly 50 buckets of sand. The following day, I got two
bricklayers to cement the portion. But I had first taken out the belongings she
brought.”
The Lagos State Commissioner of Police,
Umar Manko, stated that the police had concluded their investigations on the
case, adding that the native doctor was going to be charged to court for
murder.
He said, “The woman and her daughter
were reported missing on May 10 at the Oko Oba Police Division by the family.
“Azeez was eventually arrested through
a tracking device installed on the victim’s Toyota Camry. Azeez, an herbalist,
had hypnotized the woman for a long time. He had taken over N200m from her both
in cash and property. We discovered he cleverly constructed a well in his
house, lured the woman with her daughter into the room, and buried them alive.
“We were able to recover the decomposed
bodies of the victims from the well. We also picked their property which was
buried along with them. We have finished our investigations, and he will be
charged to court for murder. We will leave the rest to be decided by the
court.”
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