Taye Agbaje, a man, is accused of murdering his younger brother’s two children in a jungle in Abeokuta, the state’s capital.
According to reports, Taye went to his brother’s home in Kemta Abata, Abeokuta, on August 6, stole two girls on his bike, and then slaughtered them with a cutlass.
Additionally, it was heard that Idowu Agbaje, the father of the children, who wasn’t home when Taye arrived to pick them up, began looking for them when he got home later that day.
He informed the locals when they reported seeing the two girls riding his brother’s motorcycle during the day.
Residents of Kemta Abata expressed outrage at the occurrence and noted that the culprit did not reside there.
Agbaje said in a widely shared video that he macheted the bodies of the two girls, Promise, age nine, and Testimony, her younger sister, age seven, inside a bush.
When questioned in the video, Agbaje denied killing the children for money rituals, but he was unable to explain why their private parts were also gone and were not even visible at the crime site.
“Taye denied knowing the whereabouts of the females when he was questioned about them. Community members claimed to have seen him transporting the girls, but he claimed to have simply taken them to the market.’’
“He was taken to Kemta police division, where he later confessed to have killed his nieces. Taye took the police to the bush where he slit his nieces throats and left the bodies.
“We all saw the bodies where he killed them. Police have evacuated the corpses to the mortuary. Taye did not give any particular reason for his action, he only said the mother of the kids had spiritually taken his glory for her husband. This is very shocking,” someone in the community said.
Omolola Odutola, the public relations officer for the Ogun State Police, acknowledged the occurrence and called it puzzling.
Odutola said that while the suspect was being questioned by the police, he displayed no remorse and kept attributing the crime to Satan.
“The suspect gave no specific justification for killing his brother’s children. There was no indication of regret at all. He is merely blaming Satan, and the law does not allow for it, according to Odutola.