The suspect, who was paraded on Tuesday
told journalists that he lured the girl inside a church where he raped her and
strangulated her to death.
The suspect said his mum was a cleaner at
the church where he committed the crime. He said he had waited for his victim
to pass through the place to her church and he requested her to help him carry
some chairs when he pounced on her.
“On 17th September 2022, I went back home around 1pm from work because we didn’t have work that day. We were just sleeping at the shop, I told my boss that I wanted to go and ease myself, my boss allowed me and said I should come back quickly.
“When I got home, I took the key to our
church because my mum is the cleaner of the church and went to church. I
packed all chairs in the church together, I knew the time Ifeoluwa would pass
through our church on the way to her church.
“She eventually passed and I asked her to assist me in
carrying some of the chairs I had already packed.
“I took out a knife from my pocket and I
instructed her not to shout, I wanted to attack her to collect her phone but
she dragged the knife with me and the knife fell, she also fell down and hit
her head on the ground while trying to escape.
“She became weak and I raped her, I took her phone and
asked her for the password to her phone, she gave me wrong
password, when I discovered that the password was wrong, I strangulated her.”
The Police Commissioner in the state, Adebowale
Williams, said his men attached to Iyana-Offa Divisional Police
Headquarters were notified of the sudden disappearance of Ifeoluwa, a 17-
year-old female who according to reports left for church at about 1600hrs and
was yet to return home.
The CP said, “A search party was
immediately raised to know what caused her disappearance, while this was
ongoing as a call was placed to the parents of the deceased by an unknown
caller stating clearly the deceased had been abducted.”
He said preliminary investigation revealed
that the corpse was found “beside a Bible School at Olodo Area, with a
bloody genitalia, coupled with signs of struggling which indicated that she
might have been manhandled before her eventual untimely death.”
He added that investigation continues
as the case have been transferred to the State Criminal Investigation
Department.