Police sources say the matter came to
the open after Bakare did not return
with Ganiyu who promised to buy him
groundnut. When Bakare's father, Ismail,
sought to know his son's where about,
Ganiyu denied that he ever saw the little
boy. His claim was however contradicted
by an elderly woman who lived in the
same compound with Bakare's father
who said she saw Ganiyu take the young
boy out.


The matter was reported to the office of
the FSARS and through intensive
interrogation, Ganiyu confessed to have
taken the boy to an unknown destination
with the sole aim of using him for money
ritual. He said that himself and his gang
members had cut off Bakare's head and
buried it in a shallow grave and then
threw his body within the same vicinity
and buried it with leaves



His confession:

“I am a palm fruit cutter. The mother
of the body came to my house to tell
me that she would need my services
to cut palm fruits, asking me to come
the following day. But I went to her
house at about 5.30p.m same day. I
took the young boy with me, with the
belief that no one noticed when he
was going with me. I bought N20
worth of groundnut for him before
taking him to my house at Iyana
Olofa.”


He told the police that he took the
deceased to Olokede bush where he cut
his head with a knife and buried it, while
he threw the body away. Investigations
showed that Ganiyu had once been
arrested in 2012 for stealing a child at
Otapete area of Iragbiji. He was said to
have been beaten and macheted by
indigenes of the town before he was
taken to the police station, while the
rescued boy was returned to his parents.
Ganiyu was eventually charged to court
and spent seven months in Ilesa prison.



Lord hav Mercy

Cc seun lalasticlala

Eeyah.. What a pity