A 47-year-old footballer, Bankole Oginni, arrested for killing his ex-lover, Bosede Adejoro, in Akure, the Ondo state capital, has denied being a ritualist.
Bankole, paraded alongside some suspected criminals, said she slumped a few minutes after he offered her a soft drink.
According to Vanguard Newspaper, Oginni, while speaking with journalists during his parade at the Police headquarters in Akure, said “the deceased visited my place on Saturday after calling me the previous day to say she needed my help.”
“She was my ex-lover and I had been rendering assistance to her whenever she asked for it.”
“I told her to meet me at my parent’s house. And she was about to take the soft drink I offered her when she slumped and I was so scared.”
He said that the deceased had barely entered his house when she slumped few minutes after he offered her the drink.
His words: “But when it dawn on me that the she was dead, I poured the hot water on her with the hope that she will wake up.”
“When it dawned on me that she was not going to wake up, I decided to cut her up and put the parts in a sack and dispose it somewhere later.”
“I cut out her intestines so that I can put them inside bags. It was because I was very scared, perplexed and afraid of the police.”
“I did not do it for any other purpose. Nobody sent me to remove her private parts. I was afraid of the police and wanted to cover up.”
“I did not know what to do and that made me take some hard decisions.”
The Police image maker of the state command, Funmi Odunlami, said that the suspect would soon be charged to court for murder.
