By Tola Gbadamosi

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Seven cultists and a 29-year-old Togolese labourer, Gbegele Mustapha have been arrested by  the police in Akure for allegedly murdering his landlady and house wife, Mrs Adijat Olaoye in an attempt to rape her.

Mustapha was paraded among 18 suspects who were involved in different crimes in different parts of Ondo State.

The State Commissioner of Police, Mr Taiwo Jesubiyi said two of the suspects allegedly raped their victims to death in Akure and Ore .

Jesubiyi disclosed that a 27-year-old farm labourer, Mima Chinecherem from Ebonyi state was apprehended in connection with the murder of an 80-year-old grandmother, Madam Felicia Aderibigbe at her Ore farm in Odigbo local government area.

Reliable police sources hinted that Madam Aderibigbe was murdered in her farm at the weekend in the Constain area of Ore town after she had been missing for some days before her corpse was found in the farm.

According to the source, the suspect was seen at night pegging a palm frond in the front of the deceased’s house

“This arouse the suspicion of the deceased’s children who apprehended the suspect and was immediately searched, after which the mobile phone belonging to the old woman was recovered from him

“He was handed over to the police and during interrogation, he claimed he saw the cutlass, bucket and mask at the boundary of the deceased farm.

“When asked the reason for the palm frond, he said it was the deceased children who cut and dropped it on their mother’s farmland, so he decided to take it to their house around 10pm and told them they would understand the meaning the next day,” the source stated.

The Public Relations Officer of the command, Mrs Funmi Odunlami who spoke on behalf of the Commissioner also revealed that seven people have been arrested with cult related killings in Owo.

The suspects are Fadahunsi Monday, (27); Oluwafemi Ajayi (34); Adewale Monday (22); Olupona Olamide (27); Ifedayo Michael (20); Isiaka Jimoh (30) and Olatunji Ojo (35).

The police boss who stated that all the paraded suspects would soon be charged to court, enjoined members of the public to avail them with useful information.