The Delta State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), a Superintendent of Police, Bright Edafe said that one 20-year-old Precious has been arrested for stealing his girlfriend’s 10-year-old and selling the child to ritual killers for N200,000.
Edafe shared a video of the suspects being interrogated and he wrote: “The boyfriend of the girl deceived one of the triplets, who is a sister to his girlfriend, and took her to meet two unknown men, where they used a machete to kill the little girl, who is 10 years old. They promised to give him ₦200,000, but even the ₦200,000, he didn’t see.”
In the video, Edafe explained that the female suspect is the elder sister of 10-year-old triplets and they are in her care.
Her boyfriend, the male suspect named Precious, 20, reportedly approached the female suspect to beg for one of the triplets. The girlfriend refused to release any of her 10-year-old sisters to him, so he went behind her and took one of them.
He then handed the girl to two men who had promised to give him N200,000 if he brought them a child.
After handing the child over to them, Precious said he watched them butcher her with a cutlass.
He said he felt “pain” when he saw her get killed.
When the girlfriend noticed one of the triplets was missing, she raised the alarm and made it clear that her boyfriend had asked for one of the girls.
Locals found the boyfriend and pounced on him but police intervened, stopping the jungle justice being meted out on him.
Precious was arrested and his girlfriend was also detained because she failed to raise the alarm the moment he asked her for one of her sisters.
As for the two men who Precious gave the child, they are still at large. Precious claimed the men were yet to pay him and that he had no idea where they were.
Bright Edafe added that even the remains of the murdered child have not been recovered.
