The Kogi State Command of the Nigerian Police has shared more details about the 21-year-old suspect, Jeremiah Awe who harvested the organs of a 100-level student of Federal University Lokoja.
Recall that security operatives had arrested the suspect following evidence of complicity in the abduction and gruesome murder of the 17-year-old student of Biology at the institution, Damilola Oluwoyo.
Speaking on Friday, the spokesperson of police command, Williams Aya in a statement said that the suspect confessed to luring his victim on September 4.
The statement read partly: “He further confessed that he added a drug (codeine) into a drink and gave it to her to make her weak and lured her into a nearby bush close to his lodge at Felele area of Lokoja where he strangled her to death.”
He “Mutilated her eyes, Lung, Liver, Tongue, Intestines, and fleshy parts of her buttocks and dumped the corpse in the bush.
He further disclosed that “immediately after he killed his victim, he placed a call to the father and demanded a ransom to enable him to meet up with the requirements for the rituals from the native doctor whom he met on TikTok.
“The father of the deceased sent the sum of N400,000 as ransom unknown to him that his daughter was already dead.”
Aya noted that the deceased father, Stephen Oluwoyo had reported his daughter missing on September 6 before the arrest of the suspect,
The father stated that his daughter’s phone could not be reached after her examination on September 2.
“Her (father) further stated that he received a message from an unknown GSM number that his daughter Damilola had been abducted and the abductor demanded a ransom,” the statement said.
The suspect was caught after Technical Intelligence Unit (TIU) from the Force Headquarters, trailed and arrested the suspect on September 11.
The suspect led the team of Operatives on the same day to the scene where the corpse of the late Damilola was recovered, evacuated and deposited at the Federal Teaching Hospital Lokoja mortuary for autopsy.
“Further investigation led to the arrest of three other suspects: Barnabas Olugbenga, 20; Ajani Ayomide, 20, and Emmanuel Otitoju, 24, two of whom are his friends who aided in the commission of the crime,” the police said.
