Oladipo Oyefemi, 33, a construction worker and graduate of Geology
and Minning from the University of Jos, has been arrested by the Police
in Jos for allegedly killing a 24-year-old woman, Patience Musa.
Oyefemi, a resident of Millionaires Quaters, Jos, was said to have
picked the 24-year-old Musa at the West of Mines area of Jos, around
midnight on Friday, May 31, allegedly for a night of fun.
According to News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, an investigation revealed that the two had agreed on a fee of N3,000 for the night.
However, Oyefemi allegedly killed the woman while she was at his
house and tried to dump her body but was apprehended by a vigilante
group keeping watch around the quarters.
Father of the deceased, Musa, a resident of Tudun Wada, said that he
received a distress call from his daughter (deceased)’s phone from
someone who flatly told him to go to the Nasarawa Gwom Police station.
He said “I was at home in the morning of Saturday, June 1, when I
received a call from my daughter’s phone but heard a man’s voice at the
other end asking me to proceed to the Nasarawa Gwom Police station”
“I thought she was involved in a fight or some kind of trouble with
someone and got arrested, but when I arrived at the station, the Police
men told me that my daughter was killed and her body dumped somewhere.
They asked me to follow them to the hospital to identify her body.
“At the Jos University Teaching Hospital Mortuary, I discovered that
the body was actually my daughter’s, even though she had already changed
in appearance. She had stab wounds all over her body and her tongue was
sticking out.
“I want the authorities to investigate this matter to its logical
conclusion and find out why my daughter was killed. This is too painful
for all of us to bear. She was killed in cold blood, all I want is
justice.”
Mr Ralph Monye, the family lawyer, who also spoke on behalf of the
family, added that the body showed that she was stabbed on her two
breasts, heart area, neck and other parts, and had marks on her neck
which suggest she was also strangled.
Monye said that the police informed the family that after Oyefemi
committed the crime, he proceeded to call his security man, one Nasir,
to help him dispose of the body, but that the two men were apprehended
by vigilante members, who were keeping watch.
“While inspecting her body at the mortuary, we found that she was
killed in a very brutal manner. She was stabbed on both breasts with the
attacker aiming directly at both nipples with precision, then directly
at her heart, then the neck region and other parts, before strangling
her.
“The police told us that Oyefemi and his security man went to dump
her body in a nearby bush but were apprehended by a vigilante group who
promptly called the police.
“The police also informed us that after he killed her, he cleaned
everywhere in his room and dressed his bed so perfectly that no one
could even imagine that such gruesome murder happened in the same room.”
Monye said that when he (suspect) was led by the police to his house
for inspection, they discovered a neatly cleaned room, adding that it
took them hours before retrieving the deceased’s phone and bag from him
as he hid them and refused to hand them over.
The suspect, who is being held at the State Criminal Investigation
Department (CID), told NAN that he was being held on alleged murder and
was transferred from the Nasarawa Gwom police station on Monday, June 3,
to the state CID.
Oyefemi stated that he was arrested alongside his security guard, Nasir, but declined to comment further.
The suspect works at the Moulds Nigeria Limited, a Jos-based
construction company, engaged in major highway and civil engineering
construction projects.
Mr Tyopev Terna, spokesman of the Plateau Police Command, confirmed the incident.
He said, “The case of culpable homicide involving one Patience Musa
was yesterday, June 3, transferred from Nasarawa Gwom police station to
the state CID for discreet investigation. That is all I can tell you
now.”