Our son was neither a cultist nor an internet fraudster –Parents of 300-Level OOU student murdered alongside his girlfriend

His countenance was a telltale that he was under an intense emotional pain. His eyes were bloodshot, evidence that he had struggled with sleep for almost four days without success, despite being sedated.

Occasionally, he looked up as he sat on a praying mat in his modest sitting room to acknowledge greetings from neighbours and friends who had converged there to commiserate with him on the death of his 22-year-old son,  Adebisi.

 

That was the pathetic scenario on Tuesday at the home of Prince Adedeji Oriade-Oyede, a one storey-building located at Oju-Ore in Ota, Ado Odo/Ota Local Government Area of Ogun State, when our correspondent went there to interview him on the incident. His son,  Adebisi, who was a 300-Level Computer Science undergraduate of the Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago Iwoye, was allegedly murdered alongside his girlfriend, Julia Imaga, on May 28,  2018, at Oru-Awa Ijebu axis by an alleged member of Aiye cult group,  Babatunde Muritala and two other accomplices.

The two accomplices were Owolabi Razak popularly known as ‘Iku’ and one Sodiq, who is still on the run.  Getting him to talk about the gruesome manner his son was murdered was quite difficult. He appeared to have relapsed into an emotional trauma, just like someone reliving a horrible encounter from a nightmare. After asking our correspondent to sit on the vacant seat beside one of the sympathisers, he began, “Adebisi would have been 22 years old on November 27, 2018, but for those wicked people, led by Babatunde Muritala who cut his life and destiny short.

“He was born on November 27, 1996. He was such a quiet and easy going boy who abhorred any form of trouble. I never heard that he ever fought with anybody.

“He was the second child among the three children their mother, Maria, had for me.”

Adebisi, according to the Ogun State Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Iliyasu, must have been killed on Monday May 28,  2018 by his assailants. He said this while parading the suspects  alongside 22 others arrested for various offences ranging from armed robbery, cultism to stealing and rape.

They were paraded on Friday, June 22 at the command’s headquarters at Eleweran, Abeokuta.

He had said Adebisi’s elder brother, Adeola, had on June 3,  2018, reported to the police that he(Adebisi) had left home since May 28, 2018 with his girlfriend in his car,  Honda Crosstour with number plate FST 350 FA,  but had yet to return.

Upon receiving the complaint, the men of the Inspector-General of Police’s Intelligence Response Team together with men of the state police command swung into action.  Through technical intelligence, Muritala and Razak were nabbed and evidence such as Adebisi’s iPhone x and two pairs of sneakers also belonging to him were recovered from them.

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