A suspected serial killer, Philip Ogunnaike, who was arrested in Ogun State, has requested that he and his accomplices be sentenced to death.
In an interrogation video obtained by PUNCH Metro on Monday, and shared by the state Police Public Relations Officer, Omolola Odutola, on her X page, Ogunnaike expressed his plea.
According to Punch, it was reported that while the command was announcing the arrest on Friday, the police command disclosed that Philip Ogunnaike allegedly killed three victims: 18-year-old Akinsanya Habibat, 22-year-old Abigail Dina, and 23-year-old Mary Ogunyemi.
Ogunnaike confessed to the murders and admitted to abandoning their bodies in the forest. He also led the police’s anti-kidnapping team to various locations where the victims were killed and buried.
The suspect explained that he was drawn into the act of killing by a man named Danjuma, and others who allegedly initiated him into the outlawed Eiye confraternity.
Ogunnaike urged the police to arrest Danjuma and the other alleged accomplices, while emphasizing that his only request is to be sentenced to death when taken to court.
The suspect said, “But before they kill us, they should give me food so that I can eat before they kill me because those that I killed may just have finished eating before I killed them,” he said in Yoruba (now translated).