The leader of the Yahoo Plus gang that kidnapped and murdered a 300-level student of Delta State University, DELSU, Abraka, Elozino Ogege, has reportedly slumped and died.
It was gathered that he slumped and died when he was trapped by police detectives at a hideout in Abraka.
However, four other suspects, together with a herbalist, two private security guards are in police custody at the Police headquarters, Asaba, Delta State.
Delta State Police Command’s Public Relation Office, PPRO, DSP Saint Andrew Aniamaka, confirmed the death of the suspect, yesterday.
while two other suspects, Onos, a private security guard and Desmond, internet fraudster, who spoke to our correspondent, admitted participating in the crime.
DSP Aniamaka disclosed that “the mastermind known to be a fraudster, just returned from Ghana; we made efforts to pick him up, however it was not possible.
Between the Thursday the incident happened and Saturday, we've got most of the suspects.
The mastermind knowing that we've got him slumped and gave up the ghost. “Quickly, the second fraudster, Desmond, was caught and he told us he had been engaged in four previous cases.
He identified the herbalist that they take the body of female folks for ritual,” he said.
Desmond affirmed that Elozino’s murder made it the fifth life he had taken for rituals.
According him, “each time we killed, we removed the vital organs like the eyes, the heart and also the breasts of the victims, usually females, and go the herbalist, who usually would ask us to come back back.”
He added that the herbalist used to burn the hearts and pound them to make powdery substance out of them.
It's the powder that he gives to them, that they apply before talking to their victims to make cash from them. “Any big woman we approach obliges us and provides cash for us”.
However, the herbalist denied the allegation as he continued to call God as witness that he was speaking the truth.
He said Elozino’s organs were the first he received from the Yahoo Plus customers, but Desmond insisted they took the body to him after killing their victims.
The security guard, Onos, who had offered to help the victim to get accommodation and was in possession of Elozino’s phone with which the police tracked him, confessed he was posted into the school by his supervisor for the purpose of carrying up such missions when contacted, but the supervisor, Nwaosisi, denied the allegation.
Nwaosisi said he was among those who pursued Onos when the police came after him in the school. “When all these were happening, Onos threatened to implicate me for assisting the police to arrest him.
When the police caught him, they found two phones that he claimed I sold to him. That was my involvement. “
