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| From Left: Azeez, Kerry and Obiagulum |
After several weeks of intelligence gathering and intense interrogations, the Lagos State Police Command on Monday
finally paraded a 64-year-old evil 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.
According to a report SHOWBIZPLUSng monitored in Punch Metro, 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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