Details have emerged from Adeeko Owolabi, the 22-year-old prime suspect in the murder of Miss Favour Daley-Oladele, a final year Theatre Arts student of Lagos State University (LASU). He has revealed the gruesome manner in which he carried out the heinous act alongside Prophet Segun Phillips.
Adeeko and Phillips, along with Adeeko’s mother, Ruth, led the police to the shallow grave where Favour’s body was found on January 4th. The victim was killed on December 8th. Shockingly, the suspects had removed the head, two breasts, neck, and part of the legs of the deceased when the body was exhumed.
In his statement to the media, Adeeko admitted to luring the deceased to Ikoyi-Ile and accommodating her in a hotel before carrying out the murder.
” After I lodged her in a guest house, I took her to a house which I claimed to be my uncle’s house, knowing fully well that the place was a ritualist’s den. I smashed a pestle on her head and she collapsed. The prophet thereafter used a knife and cutlass to dismember her body which was divided into three parts breasts, head and legs with other vital parts. We buried the remaining part of her body beside Prophet Philip’s Church called ‘Solution Salvation Chapel’, while some vital parts were given to my mother to eat for spiritual cleansing” he said
Prophet Segun Phillips also spoke to the media, confessing that Favour’s murder was carried out to make money rituals for Adeeko, and that the church was used as a cover-up.
”I am not a prophet but a herbalist who engages in spiritual cleansing for whomsoever come to my place. I used the Solution Salvation Chapel as a cover up not to allow people know the true picture of who I am and what I do. Owolabi came to my place for money rituals and I told him that we need a complete human being for the rituals. And on December 8, he brought his girlfriend to my church and we killed her and as well dismembered her body part for money rituals” he said
Adeeko’s mother expressed her shock, claiming she was unaware of her son’s involvement in such rituals.