The Lagos state Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni, has confirmed the gruesome murder of four-year-old daughter of Mr and Mrs Suleiman Taiwo in a shrine at the Iwaya area of the state.
Addressing the media on Wednesday, he said: “The DPO Sabo alerted me that one Suleiman Taiwo and wife came to the station with the dead body of their four-year-old daughter. We have seen the knife used when we got there by 4a.m. We have arrested 10 persons and they are in our custody for interrogation. We are not saying they killed the child but there is a kind of conspiracy in the matter.
“We will question all of them. The area is densely populated. Seems like these days, people have thrown their morals into the dustbin because I don’t know what a four-year-old child has done to be murdered.
“The shrine has been in that compound for a long time and if it’s not a conspiracy of silence, then the occupants must have known that human sacrifices are made in that shrine because this is not the first time such has happened.”
According to the parents, their daughter and two of her siblings had gone to the mosque by 1p.m. to pray. Although her siblings returned home after the prayers, the little girl was nowhere to be found, prompting the parents to raise an alarm.
Her body was later found at midnight at the shrine behind the house by the search party, with her neck slashed with a knife.
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