The Police Command in Ondo State, on Sunday disclosed the killing of a Director in the Ondo State Teaching Service Commission (TESCOM), Gbenga Olofinmoyegun, who was declared missing on Thursday. The deceased was found with his head cut off by his kidnappers suspected to be ritualists.
The Police Public Relations Officer of the Ondo State Command, SP Funmilayo Odunlami, disclosed in Akure that the mutilated corpse of the director was found on Saturday in Akure. She said that the deceased was identified by some people through the suit he wore before he went missing.
SP Funmilayo Odunlami narrated: “Yesterday afternoon somebody called to inform us that a decomposing corpse was found at Saint Theresa, close to St. Peter in Akure.
“When the police got there to remove the corpse some people came around and identified him as the director we have been searching for in the past three days.
“It was his suit they used to identify him, but his head had been cut off and his chest ripped open while his intestine was removed.”
Odunlami said that investigation has commenced in order to unravel the circumstances behind the killing of the director.
“Investigation has started, his phone was left behind and some other things too. So, we are going to work with what we have to know if he has issues with anybody.
“And may be it’s a ritual case, but it is an investigation that will reveal all these,” she said.