Thursday, 17 August 2017

Girl sacrificed to idol in Lagos

Lagos state police command has discovered a shrine in iwaya area of the metropolis, where children are sacrificed to an idol. The victims are allegedly abducted while on errands for their parents.
Already,10persons have been arrested sequel to the discovery of the corps of a four-year-old girl in the shrine.
According to the victim's parents,Mr. And Mrs. Suleiman Taiwo, their daughter and two of her siblings had gone to the mosque in the afternoon to pray.
The little girl did not return with her siblings,promoting the parents to raise and alarm. A search party later found her corpse,at midnight,in the shrine behind the house. Her neck was slashed and her blood spilled on
Shrine.
Commissioner of police,fatai Owoseni,at press briefing yesterday, said the police received a distress call that the dead  body of a little girl was found in a shrine and swung into action
He said:"On the fateful day, DPO of sabo division alerted me that one Suleiman taiwo and wife came to the station  with the dead body of their four year-old daughter.
"Upon questioning,they said the deceased,with her two siblings,went to pray at the mosque by 1pm and was not seen since then. It was in the course of the search that they found the deceased at a shrine where Ogun (idol) is worshipped,near their House. Her throat was slashed and blood spilled in the idol.
"We recovered the knife they used in the murder of the innocent girl. we arrested 10persons,including the girl's parents because they are the principals

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