The Ondo State Police Command has said Alao Adeyemi the boyfriend of Khadijat, the daughter of a former deputy governor of the state, Alhaji Lasisi Oluboyo, tried to exhume and dispose of her body when he was caught by the police.
Adeyemi, Khadijat’s boyfriend, was arrested by the police on Sunday after the police discovered the remains of Khadijat in a shallow grave in his house.
Parading Adeyemi at the headquarters of the state police command in Akure, the state capital, the state Police Public Relations Officer, Mr Femi Joseph, “The command received an information that Adeyemi, 27, who was Khadijat’s boyfriend, had allegedly killed her and was about to dispose of her corpse.
“The police immediately swooped on him and on close observation of his residence, it was discovered that the suspect had actually buried the girl, who had been missing for six days.
“He was actually planning to exhume the remains and finally dispose them of because, according to him, he was not comfortable with the stench coming from the decomposed body as it was not properly buried.”
The police also said they were in the look out for his two accomplice who helped him dug the grave where she was buried initially.
Adeyemi, who confessed to being a yahoo-yahoo boy (Internet fraudster), said he was not directly involved in the killing of Khadijat. Adeyemi has also confessed to being a yahoo-yahoo boy, but has denied using her for ritual purpose. He blamed her death on two others who according to him, came to his place with Khadijat.