RITUAL: step father, mother cut daughter’s finger, stuff her in a sack

Nasiru Adeyemo and his wife, Idayat,have been arrested by the Ogun State Police Command for allegedly cutting off a finger on the right hand of a seven-year-old girl, Abibat. Abibat is Idayat’s daughter.
According to Police report, the couple may have severed Abibat’s finger for ritual purposes as Abimbola Oyeyemi, Police PR said, the suspects allegedly stuffed the girl into a sack and dumped her in a bush by the roadside at Asabala area, along the Papalanto/Sagamu road.

He said, “The suspects were arrested following a distress call from members of the public that a strange load in a sack was sighted by the roadside at Asabala area along the Papalanto/Sagamu road.
On the strength of the information, the Divisional Police Officer, Owode Egba Divisional Headquarters, Shehu Alao, led his men to the scene where the load which was inside a white rice sack was untied.
“Surprisingly, it was a seven-year-old girl, with one of her right hand fingers already cut off. She was tied up and put inside the sack and dumped at the roadside since last Friday.”
Oyeyemi continued saying the girl upon gaining consciousness informed the police that her father and stepmother were the ones who chopped off one of her fingers before tying her up and putting her inside the sack, after which they dumped her in the bush, probably to die there.