Money ritual: how a Lagos pastor and a teenage boy were arrested for killing a girl

Ikechukwu Friday, the suspect

The police in Lagos State, yesterday, said they have arrested an 18-year-old guy, Ikechukwu Friday, who allegedly killed a 12-year-old girl for money ritual.

The suspect, who is currently being interrogated at the State Criminal Investigation Department, SCID, Panti, Yaba, was paraded before newsmen.


According to him, a pastor he asked for money instructed him to kill a young girl and obtain her faeces.

He said the pastor promised him N100,000 if he was able to achieve the task.

According to him, I attend a popular church around Ketu Street, Aguda but I live with my parents in Badagry. I just finished secondary school and I have been very broke so I approached the pastor for money but he told me that I should strangulate a little girl.

He said when strangulating the girl, she would pass out faeces. The pastor said I should obtain the faeces and bring it to him. He said if I could do this, he would give me N100,000.

So, on December 30, 2013, I approached a young woman, Bose Ogoja. Her mother sells food in Badagry and I usually patronise them, so she trusted me. I told the girl that I wanted to show her something and that she should follow me. So I took her to an abandoned NITEL building and locked the door.

I pressed her neck tightly and she passed out faeces. I was, however, not able to profit the faeces because I was caught before I could escape.

The suspect, an indigene of Onitsha, Anambra State, pleaded for mercy, adding that this was his first crime.

State Police Public Relations Officer, Ngozi Braide, said the guy was arrested by neighbours in the place and handed over to the Badagry Police Division.

Braide said the pastor, who allegedly gave the guy the instruction, had been arrested and was already cooperating with the police.

While displaying the gruesome portray of the slain girl, Braide said: He was arrested in an uncompleted building. The security guard manning the building told the police that he saw the boy entering the building with the girl.

He said a few minutes later, he heard the girl screaming and later saw the boy leaving. The security guard raised the alarm and the neighbours were alerted and they arrested the boy.

On entering the building, he discovered that the girl was dead.

The characterize of the girls corpse shows that the girl was naked and defecated upon the floor.