A 64-year-old native doctor, Alhaji Olatunji Azeez who confessed
to killing a retired customs officer, Angela Uzo Kerry and her adopted
10-year-old daughter, Obiagulum after selling the victim’s landed
properties was yesterday paraded by the Lagos State Police Command.
L-R: The suspect, Alhaji Olatunji Azeez, Kerry and her daughter, Obiagulum
The suspect who led the Police to the building where he buried his victims committed the crime on May 10, 2014.
It
was reported on Monday, June 23 that the decomposed bodies of the woman
and her daughter were found in Azeez’s house in Ire Akari Crescent,
Ajuwon Akute, Ogun State by operatives of the Lagos State Special
Anti-Robbery Squad and the building was marked as a kidnapper’s den
bythe police.
Azeez, an Oyo State indigene with three wives and
five children, said he was forced to kill the customs officer and her
daughter after she threatened to kill him over a sum of money.
He
explained, “I have been a trado-medical doctor for about 30 years, but I
knew Angela over five years ago. She initially came to me for
protection from family attacks. One of her friends called Lizzy
introduced her to me. The relationship began to grow, and she kept
patronising me for one thing or the other.
“Then, about three
years ago, she mentioned her barreness problem, adding that the daughter
that was with her was adopted. I was shocked. But when she told me her
age, I told her it was impossible to make her pregnant. But she insisted
that prophets in the churches she went had assured her she would get
pregnant.”
According to Punch Azeez later lied to the woman that she would get pregnant and collected N9m from her for the job.
Azeez
added, “I did the normal concoction for her, but it didn’t work because
of her age. But I collected the money because I knew if I did not, she
would go to where they would collect it. After some months without
result, she came to my place to complain. She then demanded a refund,
but I told her that I could not repay it. She then began to threaten me.
Within a month, I tried to repay N2.5m. On that fateful week, she came
back for the remaining N6.5m.
“It was Saturday, May 17. She came
with her daughter and insisted that she wanted her balance. She said as a
retired customs officer, she could kill me if I didn’t pay back the
money. Then I thought, I must kill this woman before she killed me. The
hole at the back of my house was not built for killing. It was dug for
drainage during rainfall.”
Azeez added that he went to the
backyard, covered the hole with a white cloth that Angela normally saw
in another shrine in his house.
He said, “After we talked, we
moved with her daughter to the place. I said she should kneel down on
the mat with her daughter. She did so and fell into the pit with her
daughter. The operation was successful because no member of my family
was around in the house.
I then began to cover the pit up with
sand. I poured in roughly 50 buckets of sand. The following day, I got
two bricklayers to cement the portion. But I had first taken out the
belongings she brought.”
The Lagos State Commissioner of Police,
Umar Manko, stated that the police had concluded their investigations on
the case, adding that the native doctor was going to be charged to
court for murder.
He said, “The woman and her daughter were reported missing on May 10 at the Oko Oba Police Division by the family.
“Azeez
was eventually arrested through a tracking device installed on the
victim’s Toyota Camry. Azeez, an herbalist, had hypnotized the woman for
a long time. He had taken over N200m from her both in cash and
property. We discovered he cleverly constructed a well in his house,
lured the woman with her daughter into the room, and buried them alive.
“We
were able to recover the decomposed bodies of the victims from the
well. We also picked their property which was buried along with them. We
have finished our investigations, and he will be charged to court for
murder. We will leave the rest to be decided by the court.”
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