The people of Isanlu Headquarter Yagba
Local Government Area of Kogi State were thrown into confusion recently
following the gruesome murder of a thirteen year old girl who was deposited
into a medium size freezer after been strangulated to death.
The girl identified as Yetunde Rachael
Samuel, a JSS 2 student of Oluyori Comprehensive College, Isanlu was killed in
the night of October 5 and neatly deposited inside a medium size freezer to
create impression that the girl fell into the freezer and was frozen to death
without any body knowing.
She was therefore hurriedly buried in
the cover of the night without the parent or the guardian reporting her
mysterious death to the police. But the state Commissioner of Police, Alhaji
Mohammed Musa Katsina who got wind of the dastardly act, suspected a fowl play,
arrested the guardian of the girl and ordered that the corpse be exhume for a
thorough autopsy to confirm whether the girl actually jumped inside the freezer
and got frozen.
It was a hectic time for Daily Sun and
detectives led by the Deputy Commissioner of Police, Alhaji Zannah Mohammed who
travelled down to the community with pathologist from Federal Medical Centre to
exhume the decomposing corpse for autopsy.
The guardian of the girl who was at the
centre of the mysterious death, Mrs. Deborah Motunrayo Jaiyeoba claimed that
she left the girl who was the daughter of her younger sister at home on
Saturday morning and left for a marriage ceremony According to her, when she
got back from the wedding ceremony and did not see Yetunde she thought she had
gone to play In her words She was thirsty and raced to the deep freezer to get
a sachet of water to drink when she suddenly discovered that Yetunde was stone
dead and she immediately raised alarm Mrs. Jaiyeoba, a sanitary inspector at
the local government claimed Yetunde wanted to clean the deep freezer in her
small retail, when she fell into it and got frozen to death Curiously, the
father of the deceased girl was said to have felt indifferent about the death
of her daughter, as he reportedly consented that she should be buried
immediately It was gathered that mother of Yetunde was impregnated while she
was in school and decided to drop the girl since when she was two years old
with her sister to go and remarry in Ilorin
However, the autopsy carried out
revealed that the girl was actually killed for ritual purposes Preliminary
doctor’s report confirmed that the girl died as result of neorogenic shock
secondary to multiple skeletal injuries most likely sustained by blunt force
trauma The doctor’s report said two of the girl’s teeth were removed. With some
vital parts while the entire head region was battered with blunt instrument
Speaking with Daily Sun, the CP said the whole episode was a case of culpable
homicide, which is not bailable
He said the innocent girl was only
brutally murdered, but expressed shock that the biological father of the girl
did not show concern, instead, he brought a letter to his office along with
somebody who claimed to be a judicial officer that the case be withdrawn.
He said when he interrogated the
father; he could not even read nor comprehend the contents of the letter, which
gave suspicion that some people were behind the murder. Musa Katsina called on
members of the public to be more vigilante on their children and to know who to
give their children to for upkeep. He vowed to pursue the case to a logical
conclusion with those found guilty made to face the wrath of the law He gave
the names of those arrested as 43-year-old Mrs. Jaiyeoba Deborah Motunrayo, who
is the guardian and three of her children namely, Jaiyeoba Titilayo 20-year-old
and Tunmininu jaiyeoba 23-year-old with jaiyeoba Femi, 18 years old Others are
Shade Jimoh, Chief J. I. Owolabi, Raphael Owolabi, Raphael Abiodun and Tolulope
Sunday
Credit: Sun
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