Justice must be served with the case of Alhaji Olatunji Azeez,a 64 years Old Native doctor who confessed to have killed a retired customs officer,Mrs Angela Kerry and her 10 years old daughter,Obiagulum on May 10,2014.The Lagos State Police Command yesterday 23rd June 2014, paraded the native doctor.
PUNCH Metro had reported on Monday that
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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