The killers of Elozino Joshualia Ogege, a 300 level student of Delta
State University, have given a chilling account of how she was
killed.Elozino, a First Class student, was murdered by a 4-man gang
consisting of 2 Yahoo boys, a security guard at her school, and a native
doctor, as she innocently sought accommodation. The men gave a
confession to newsmen yesterday, November 28, while being paraded at the
Delta State Police Command.
The
suspects revealed how they killed Elozino with the help of a security
guard, Onos, who offered to assist the victim to secure an
accommodation.Onos said:I was contacted by Desmond and another to
provide a female student for Yahoo rituals. We had planned it, and when
Elozino approached me that she was looking for accommodation, I saw it
as a good opportunity.I contacted Desmond who told me to tell her to
come back the next day. So the next day, they brought a Corola car; and
when Elozino came, they used something on her face which made her
unconscious.We took her to a bush where we first plucked out one of her
eyes while she was still alive. She was even crying and begging us to
forgive her and let her go, but we plucked the other eye, removed her
breast and heart before she died.During his confession, Onos implicated
his supervisor by claiming that he was posted into the school by his
supervisor for the purposes of carrying out such missions when
contacted.But the Supervisor with a security company attached to the
University, Uche Nwaosisi, denied knowledge of the crime, stating that
he was among those who went after Onos when the police came to look for
him in the school.
Nwaosisi
said:When all these were happening, Onos threatened to implicate me for
assisting the police to catch him. When the police caught him, they
discovered two phones with him, which he claimed I sold one to him. That
was my involvement .Desmond, who is into the "Yahoo Plus" line of
business, said Elozino is the fifth he has killed for ritual purposes.
He said the first four female victims were abducted at Oghara and killed
for the rituals, adding that Elozino’s murder was his first from the
University community in Abraka.
According
to him:Each time we killed, we removed the vital organs like the eyes,
the heart and the breast of the victims, normally females, and take to
the Baba (herbalist), who usually would ask us to come back.Baba used to
burn the heart and pound it to make powder substance out of it. It is
the powder that he gives us, which we apply before speaking to our
victims to make money from them. Any big woman we approach obliges us
and provides money for us.The native doctor, identified as Robinson,
denied being involved in previous murders and said God is his witness.
He said Elozino’s heart and eye happened to be the first he received
from the Yahoo Plus customers.He said he first met the boys seven years
ago when they brought an accident victim for him to cure, maintaining
that he specializes in treating bone fractures, making women pregnant,
preparing love portions for people, curing appendicitis and others.He
said when they came with Elozino’s body parts, they gave him N10,000,
promising to give him more money later, and asked him to make them
rich.The second Yahoo Plus suspect who was an accomplice of Desmond's
allegedly slumped and died as the police were closing in on him. The
female relative who was used to make a call relating to their illicit
operation - a minor - was arrested and is in police custody.Addressing
the journalists, the Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Andrew
Aniamaka maintained that, now that all the killers of Elozino have been
caught except the one who slumped and died, the police will arraign them
in court.