A 63-year-old man, Korede Odubela, has been arrested by police in Ogun State for killing his 16-year-old step-daughter, Amudat Oshimodi, and selling her head to his son, Seun Odubela, a herbalist, who allegedly paid N3, 000 as first instalment.

According to the State’s Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Iliyasu, Odubela, connived with an accomplice, Lekan Lawal at Imosan Area of Ijebu Ode Local Government Area of the state to strangle Amudat to death, after which he sold her head and hands to his son Seun.

 Asked why he committed the crime, Odubela told newsmen: “It is true that Lekan Lawal and I connived to kill my step-daughter. The girl was 16 years old. She was always stealing her mother’s money. And the mother said we should kill her as a sacrifice for the other children she had. Since she normally slept at the door post outside, at 12 midnight, I invited Lekan Lawal. He held the girl by the neck and strangled her while I held her legs. That was how she died.

However, the victim’s mother and Odubela’s wife, Fausat, who was in tears, told newsmen that she had five children in her first marriage before she remarried Odubela, but she denied asking her husband to kill her daughter. She said though she was not happy with the character of her late daughter, she could not have asked her husband to help her kill the troublesome girl. She said she brought Amudat to her husband’s house when she was two years and 11 days old, until she grew up and became promiscuous.

The State’s Commissioner of Police said case was still being investigated, while the corpse of Amudat had been deposited at General Hospital, Ijebu Ode morgue.