A final-year student of Kwara State College of Education, Lawal Hafsoh Yetunde has been tragically killed for ritual purposes in Ilorin after being lured by an Islamic cleric, Abdulrahman Mohad Ballo, who she met on Facebook.
A suspect, said to be the son of a prominent Muslim cleric in the Isalekoto community, is now in police custody at the police command headquarters in Ilorin.
According to reports, she was attending a naming ceremony when she received a call from a friend. She left her food to answer the call and subsequently disappeared. Her family and friends launched a search but could not locate her.
Upon arrest, the suspect initially denied any knowledge of Hafsoh’s whereabouts.
However, during a search of his house, he confessed that she had visited him but died from an asthma attack after he invited her over.
Further investigation revealed a gruesome scene: Hafsah’s body was found dismembered and hidden in a bowl, alongside tools allegedly used to dismember her.
The suspect, now in custody at the Kwara State Police Headquarters, is believed to have met Hafsoh on Facebook, where he obtained her phone number and lured her to his residence.
The case is currently under investigation at the Kwara State Police Command headquarters.
Reacting to the incident, the spokesperson for the Kwara State Police Command, SP Adetoun Ejire-Adeyemi, confirmed: “The command is aware of the gruesome killing of one Miss Yetunde H. Lawal. On 11/02/2025, at about 18:00 hours, a case of a missing person was reported at C Division, Oja-Oba, by her father, Mr Ibrahim A. Lawal. Immediately, police detectives swung into action, tracked her number, and arrested a suspect. The case was transferred yesterday to the SCID for a thorough investigation. Further updates will be communicated as the investigation progresses”.
