The police in Lagos State have arrested a 18-year-old boy, who strangulated a 12-year-old girl in Badagry area of the state for N100, 000.
The suspect alleged that a certain Surulere-based pastor, sent him to get faeces of a strangulated teenager , with a promise to reward him with N100, 000.
The teenager claims the Pastor needed the feaces to make a concoction to wake the dead, but speculations are rife it was intended for money rituals.
The suspect, Ikechukwu Friday, was on Tuesday paraded before newsmen by the image maker in charge of the state police command, Ngozi Braide, who stated that the police had also arrested a pastor.
The suspect, had, on the 30th of December, 2013, lured the girl with a food vendor to NITEL’s abandoned building in Badagry and strangled her to death .
Friday denied that he had wanted to use the slain girl for ritual purpose, but insisted that he needed money and approached the pastor, who asked him to strangle a teenage girl to death and come back with her excreta and collect money .
Braide, while speaking with newsmen, said a security man at the abandoned NITEL building noticed that the boy and a girl entered the abandoned building and later heard the girl screaming, before the boy attempted to escape.
The security man , according to the police image maker, raised the alarm, alerting residents of the area to the scene , only to discover the lifeless body of the girl .
The suspect, while speaking confessed to have killed the girl and added that he needed money “to buy something.”
Friday said “I went to my pastor and told him that I wanted to be rich. I told him that I needed N100, 000 only and he told me to go and strangle a girl less than 18 years and bring her “shit.”
On how he got his victim, the suspect said he left Surulere area , where the pastor is based and went to Badagry and lured one of the service girls of a food vendor.
Braide said the police had since arrested the pastor and investigations would continue, after which both suspects would be arraigned in court.