A murder suspect and cultist, Babatunde Muritala (aka Muri Ete), who allegedly killed one Oriade Adebisi and his girlfriend in Ogun State recently has said that jealousy and threats from the cult group which the late Oriade belongs made him kill him.
Babatunde who spoke from the cells of the Abba Kyari-led Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris Intelligence Response Team (IRT) in Lagos, said the late Oriade was like his godson even though they belong to different cult groups.
“He is a member of Alora Confraternity, which is the cult group that wears yellow dress and beret, while I belong to the Aiye Confraternity, otherwise known as the . We wear black.”
According to the suspect who said he dropped out in 200 level where he was studying business administration at Tai Solarin University, said he groomed the late Oriade as a godson, but when he started making it in life, he refused to be paying homage to him as his godson and was not giving him money as he expected.
The suspect who is under close monitoring by Philip Rieninwa, a Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP), coordinator of IGP South-West IRT who is equally working round the clock to arrest one Rasaaq, the third suspect in the murder case, said he also killed the girlfriend of Oriade to cover up his crime as the girl was in the car with the victim, when they were abducted.
He said when he pressed Oriade several times to give him money, the deceased was only promising him, so he became angry with him.
Babatunde claimed that what made him angrier was when the members of the cult which Oriade belonged, the Alora confraternity started sending threat messages to kill him, adding that that was why he quickly conspired with his own cult boys to kill Oriade.
“When we took him into the bush to kill him, he begged me and even offered me his car to spare his life, but I told him it was too late. We hacked him to death with sticks and cutlass as the two guns we brought to kill him did not work.
I took the girlfriend away from the spot he was killed, while the two boys I engaged to do the killing were performing their assignment because I did not want the girl to witness the killing. After he was confirmed dead, I brought the girl back and we also killed her”, Babatunde confessed.
“But the police said that I Rap£d her because the autopsy conducted on her corpse revealed that she was Rap£d before she was killed but I did not Rap£ her as Raping women is against the rules and regulations guiding my cult group.
I so much love him before the incident, he even thought me how to do Yahoo- Yahoo business. He was the one that gave me a link to a client in Ohio, Texas USA. The client paid 1,200 dollars, and we shared it. It was Oriade that funded the second payment with 6000 dollars to ‘disvirgin’ the account.
I met him at a filling station with his girlfriend and Damilola. I asked why he did not credit me that stuff, he said I should not worry that he was not financially buoyant but promised to do so. I told him to give me N20,000 but he said he did not have the money. So on the 27th of May, 2018, I saw his car in front of Damiloa’s house behind my girlfriend’s house, Yetunde.
I told Yetunde to be on the watch out any time the car will be parked there again and that she should inform me. So on May 28, 2018, she called to inform me the car was there at about 9 p.m.
So I quickly picked two guns and a cutlass, called two of my cult members, Rasaaq and Sodiq because I am the head of my cult group in the area, and we waited patiently for him to come out.
When he came out at about 11 p.m to enter the car, I confronted him with my gang members. I ordered him into the back seat with his girlfriend and took them to where they were killed. We killed the boy before the girl.
Later I drove his car and abandoned it close to a police station in the area and moved to a hotel in Ibadan where I was arrested by SARS. It was because his cult boys threatened to kill me that made me act faster by killing him”, Babatunde added.
