KWARA STATE POLICE Command has confirmed the arrest of 29-year-old Islamic teacher and cleric Abdulrahman Bello over the alleged murder of Lawal Hafsoh Yetunde, a final-year student of Kwara State College of Education, Ilorin.
The suspect was said to have met and invited the victim via Facebook and murdered her last Tuesday
In a statement released on Saturday, Adetoun Ejire-Adeyemi SP, the police spokesman in the state confirmed that an investigation of the incident had commenced.
The spokesperson’s statement reads, “The Kwara Police Command is aware of the gruesome killing of one Miss Yetunde H. Lawal.
“On 11/02/2025 at about 1800 hours, a case of a missing person was reported at C Division Oja-Oba by her father, Mr Ibrahim A Lawal.
“Immediately, the police detectives swung into action, tracked her number and arrested a suspect, exhibits recovered. The case was transferred yesterday to the SCID for discreet investigations.
“The suspect had been arrested through the deceased’s tracked phone number to the suspect’s house in the Offa Garaji area, Ilorin, but initially denied knowing her whereabouts.
“However, during a search of his house by the police, he confessed that she had visited him and allegedly died of an asthma attack.
“Upon further investigation, police discovered Yetunde’s dismembered body, hidden in a bowl, along with equipment used for the act.”
How College Student Was Lured And Killed
According to multiple reports, the cleric was alleged to have invited the lady through a phone call on Monday and killed and dismembered her in a location in Ganmo on the outskirts of Ilorin, the state capital.
The victim was killed by her boyfriend whom she met on social media.
The suspected killer gruesomely dismembered her body for alleged ritual purposes.
Yetunde went missing on Monday, February 10, 2025. She was at a naming ceremony when she received a call from a friend.
According to sources, she dropped her food to answer the call and then left.
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“Since then, we’ve been searching for her everywhere. But no one knew her whereabouts. On Tuesday, her parents reported the case to the Oja Oba Police Station in Ilorin. The police requested her phone number and used it to track her last call. The call was traced to an individual living in the Offa Garage District area of Ilorin, although his family house is in Isalekuto.
“The suspect was arrested but initially denied knowledge of the lady’s whereabouts. However, when the police searched his house, he confessed that the lady was in his area and had died from an asthma attack after he called her to come over.
“Upon further investigation, the police found the lady’s body, dismembered and hidden in a bowl, along with the equipment used to dismember her. The suspect is now at the police headquarters in Ilorin.
“I commend the Kwara State Police Command, Ojo Oba, for the excellent job they’ve done in solving this case. The deceased lady was a final-year student of the Kwara State College of Education in Ilorin. They met on Facebook, where he obtained her phone number. He then called her, inviting her to come over.
“Disturbingly, evidence found in the suspect’s house suggests this may not be his first offence. A table in his room appeared to be equipped with tools used to dismember bodies,” the source told Channels Television.