The Lagos state Police Command yesterday June 22nd at the
Force Headquarters in Ikeja Lagos paraded a 64-year-old native doctor Alhaji
Azeez Olatunji for killing retired customs officer, Mrs Angela Uzo Kerry and
her 10 year old daughter, Obiajurum by
burying them alive on May 17th at his home in Ire Akari Crescent, Ajuwon Akute,
Ogun State.
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| Mrs Angela Uzo Kerry. |
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| Obiajurum |
Alhaji Azeez, an indigine of Oyo state with three wives and
five children, had served as a trado-medical doctor to late Mrs Kerry who was
looking for a child as the young girl killed with her was an adopted
child.
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| Suspect |
"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 patronizing me for one thing or the other. Then, about three years
ago, she mentioned her barrenness 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".
Due to much pressure from her, Alhaji Azeez then pretended
he could help her with a child and demanded N9million from her
"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.
After we talked, we moved with her daughter to the place. I said she should
kneel down on the mat with her daughter( he already covered the hole with a mat
and white cloth to look like a shrine). 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 Police Commissioner, Umar Manko, while
parading him said late Mrs Kerry was declared missing on May 10th at the Oko
Oba Police station in Lagos and with the help of the tracking device on her
car, the Police was able to trace her car to a dealer who confessed the vehicle
was brought to him for sale by Alhaji Olatunji Azeez
"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.” Police
Commissioner Manko said
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