Adebayo Olamide Azeez, a 32-year-old graduate of Kwara State Polytechnic and ritual killer in Ogun State, has confessed to luring female victims via a social media app called MyChat.
A post shared on the Ogun State Police’s X page on Thursday revealed that Azeez, alongside Moses Abidemi Aruwaji and Maria Awuraji, a couple who are members of the criminal syndicate, was arrested in February.
The police launched an investigation after Suleimon Adijat, one of their victims, was reported missing at the Onipanu Division of the state. As disclosed by the police, the couple were arrested before Azeez, who initially ran away. He was, however, arrested on February 23.
After his arrest, Azeez mentioned how he worked with Moses by helping him get female victims through a dating platform called MyChat. The women would then be killed for ritual purposes.
While being interviewed in a video, Azeez said he started working for Moses on September 23, 2023, through January 11, 2024, because “he could not secure a job despite being a graduate of Kwara State Polytechnic”.
During this period, Azeez revealed, he would lure seven unsuspecting women to their deaths, after which Moses would pay him either N30,000 or N40,000.
Azeez said: “I have this MyChat app on my phone. Anytime he needs someone, he will tell me, and I will go to the app. That was where I met Adijat Sulaimot; I did not know her before then. It was on the app that I chatted with her, sent her an address to meet me at Atan, and took her to Awuraji’s house at Igbo Olomi Atan. She said she would collect N15,000 but I sent N6000 before she came. When she came, I met her at the bus stop, and from there took her to Abidemi Moses’ house.”
“10 female bags were recovered from the shrine of one of the previously arrested suspects, Moses Abidemi Aruwaji. The three suspects confessed to the killing of ten different ladies at the Igbo Olomi residence of Moses Abidemi,” said the police.
“The Comand is working assiduously to unravel the identity of other victims; therefore, any family whose relatives are missing is advised to come forward to the SCIID, Eleweran, Abeokuta.”