Yetunde Lawal, a 24-year-old student of Kwara State College of Education, Ilorin has been murdered in what police detectives regard as ritual killing.
She was a final year student of Chemistry & Integrated Science at the College.
Her suspected killer is her boyfriend, identified as an Islamic Cleric, Abdulrahman Muhammed Bello.
Her father, Ibrahim Adefalu, told AIT News that Yetunde got missing after receiving a call from Abdulrahman Muhammed Bello while at a naming ceremony last Monday.
Yetunde’s father wants justice for his daughter’s untimely and gruesome death
People in the community of Oju-Ekun Sarumi, where they live, are in shock.
Reports of ritual killings are now very common in Ilorin, most times linked to fraudsters known locally as yahoo-yahoo.
The case of Yetunde, however, opens up a rather different dimension.
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The man she reportedly went to see – Abdulrahman Muhammed Bello – is a known Islamic Cleric commonly called Alfa by the locals.
A professor of Sociology at the University of Ilorin, Abdulahi Arazeem attributes the rise in ritual killings to greed and the negative influence of the social media.
Prof Arazeem wants the social media to be regulated to curb the negative social pressure.
A social commentator, Musa Aliu and an Islamic Scholar, Abdulsalam Imam blamed the political class and society’s celebration of unexplained wealth.
Meanwhile, the Kwara state Police Public Relations Officer Ejire Adeyemi-Adetoun has confirmed to AIT News that the prime suspect has been arrested, assuring that the case is still under investigation.
(Editor: Ebuwa Omo-Osagie)
