Suspect in Kwara Final Year Student’s Murder Found with ‘Juju’ Items.

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A special prayer session was held on Saturday at Adefalu Compound, Ojuekun area, Ilorin, Kwara state, for the repose of the soul of Miss Yetunde Lawal, a final year student who was allegedly murdered by a Facebook friend for ritual purposes.

The prayer session, conveyed by Muslim leaders in Ojuekun/Sarumi area, was led by Imam Alabidun, a popular Islamic scholar in the area. Imam Alabidun prayed for Allah to grant rest to the deceased and urged her parents to accept her death as the will of Allah.

He also prayed for Allah to reward the perpetrators of the act with the right judgment, saying “those who committed the act of ending the life of Hafsat will face the wrath of God in this earth and the world beyond.”

Alhaji Ibrahim Lawal, father of the deceased, spoke with reporters shortly after the prayers, saying “She returned from her job at about 12:30 pm on Monday and went to attend the naming ceremony of one of her friends also in this area when she informed her friends that she was going to visit a friend.”

Lawal explained that his daughter did not return home that day and did not sleep at home, prompting him to report her missing at Oja-Oba Police station on Tuesday. He said that the tracking of her phone revealed that she was called on the phone by the suspect, who later confessed to murdering her.

“Some of the items which included horn, black soap, and charms recovered by the Police from the room apartment of the suspect clearly showed that Hafsat, who is my second daughter, was murdered for ritual purpose,” Lawal said.

Lawal stated that he did not know the suspect as his daughter’s boyfriend and that the boy he knew as her boyfriend was preparing to come to his family to ask for her hand in marriage. “About fifteen days ago, I told her to tell the boy I know as her boyfriend to bring his family to our family to formalize their marriage,” he said.

When asked what he wanted the government to do on the matter, Lawal said “I want to appeal to the Nigeria Police Force not only in Kwara state but the entire country and to our father, the Emir of Ilorin, to carry out the investigation transparently so that justice would be seen to have been done in this matter, so that people would learn lessons and the society would be free of undesirable elements.”

Yetunde, who recently completed her National Certificate of Education (NCE) in Chemistry and Integrated Science, was allegedly murdered by Abdulrahman Mohammed Bello, a 29-year-old Islamic teacher and cleric, who is currently in police custody in Ilorin, Kwara state.

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