Senator quizzed over murder of hunchback - Recovered hunch deposited at LAUTECH Teaching Hospital
Tunde Oyekola, Osogbo
Wednesday, October 7, 2009

THE Police in Osogbo, Osun State, have quizzed a former member of the National Assembly, Senator Felix Kolawole Ogunwale, over the alleged murder of a 27-year-old hunchback, Taibat Oseni, allegedly done in Iragbiji, headquarters of Boripe Local Government Area of the state, on Tuesday, last week.


Senator Ogunwale, who was said to have been reporting at the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) at the Police headquarters in Osogbo since Monday, was said to be the owner of an abandoned building at Iragbiji, where Taibat was said to have been dragged by her assailants at about 10.30 p.m., on Tuesday night, before she was murdered.

The police said that they had arrested three suspects in connection with the incident while the hunch had been recovered from them. Those arrested, according to the police, were Asimiyu Kolapo, Mukaila Kolawole and Isaac Ayandokun, while another suspect identified as Mosudi Abisoye, also known as Compol, an OPC member at Iragbiji, was still at large.

The police said that they were yet to recover the corpse of Taibat but the hunch recovered from the suspects and a piece of flesh, suspected to be human flesh, had been deposited at LAUTECH Teaching Hospital for preservation and examination.

Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Mr. Clement Akinola, who confirmed that Senator Ogunwale had been invited in connection with the murder of the hunchback, stated that he (Ogunwale) was not directly connected with the murder.

He stated that the police invited Senator Ogunwale for questioning because the house, where the suspects allegedly murdered Taibat, belonged to him.

He said, “though the suspects have not linked Senator Ogunwale to the mysterious killing of Taibat Oseni, the 27-year-old hunchback, the suspects said that the crime was perpetrated in an abandoned house allegedly owned by Senator Ogunwale.”

He added that, “as at now, there is no evidence incriminating Senator Ogunwale about the murder.” However, Senator Ogunwale, who was seen at the police headquarters on Tuesday, told newsmen that he voluntarily reported himself to the police to clear his name, when he learnt that the murder was perpetrated in his abandoned house.

Senator Ogunwale was elected in 2003 on the ticket of the PDP and contested the governorship primaries of the party with the incumbent governor, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, in the 2007 gubernatorial election. Senator Ogunwale, in May 2009, defected to the rival Action Congress (AC).

oh God have mercy!!!

can priests and practitioners of ATR stop requiring human sacrifice for their rituals?

lord help us oh.

The is not perpetrated by ATR adherents but by evil,brutish,cannibalistic and sub-human sorcerers.

Atr only permits animal sacrifice to the gods,for rituals and worships.

Is it so easy to remove the hunch? Because my doctor told me that it is the deformation of the spine that causes the hunch and it cannot neatly be removed as the police is claiming. He even suggested that the hunch recovered be tested to ensure it is not that of a cow that is easily removed. The suspects probably have a load more confession to make. As long as the suspect have not named the Senator as the one who sent them and it is confirmed that the house has been abandoned for so long, then why are the police still holding him without bail? Or would all those with abandoned houses be arrested for vices occurring in them? I believe attention is being diverted from the proper investigation of this matter!!