The source disclosed that details of how she was dropped there could not be ascertained, but upon closer examination, they realised that her private part had been cut off.
The source said, “A lady was found lifeless on Tuesday in a gutter along OGTV Road, Abeokuta. She was suspected to have been used for a ritual; her private part was missing.
“The police came around and took her body to the State Hospital Morgue in Ijaiye.”
When contacted for a reaction on Thursday, the Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer, Omolola Odutola, promised to get back to our correspondent, but she had yet to do so as of the time of filing this report.
Meanwhile, a senior security officer in the area who was privy to the incident told our correspondent that the deceased was a commercial sex worker.
The officer disclosed that her friends narrated that a man had picked her up at their popular spot in Oke-Ilewo a day before the incident.
However, her lifeless body was found with machete wounds on the neck and hands, while her private part was cut off.
“The lady was a commercial sex worker. Her friends said she was picked up by one man at their spot in Iwe-Iroyin, Oke-Ilewo.
“She had machete wounds on her neck and her hands, and her private part was cut off,” the officer said.