A 17-year-old Senior Secondary 2 (SS2) student, Ruth Alabi,has narrated her ordeal having narrowly escaped being killed for money rituals when her boyfriend lured her to a herbalist’s residence at Olodo area of Ibadan before she was rescued by vigilante men. Ruth Alabi, who claimed to be an SS2 student at an undisclosed school in Abuja, said she came to spend the Easter holiday with her mother in Ibadan when the incident occurred. Her said boyfriend, Chubuike Omigbo , 33, who sold building materials at Iwo Road area of Ibadan was arrested and paraded alongside the herbalist, Oladimeji Babatunde Ajala ,37, by the State Police Command yesterday. Briefing newsmen on the incident at the State Police Headquarters, Eleyele, Ibadan, the Oyo State Commissioner of Police (CP), Mr Leye Oyebade said that the suspects had planned to use the girl for money-making rituals before the plan was thwarted by the police following a tip-off by a strategic partner when the duo was planning to use the girl for money ritual. Oyebade said: “The victim’s boyfriend, Chibuike, had lured her to the herbalist’s residence at No. 5, Galilee Street, Olodo area of the state for the purpose of the ritual.”
