By Newsmata
A family member of the gruesomely murdered 24-year-old Salome Eleoja Adaidu, a member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) serving at Nicon Insurance, Abuja, has given a horrifying and heart-wrenching account of how she was killed and dismembered by Oluwatimilehin Ajayi, touted to be a gospel singer but who claimed to be a cryptocurrency trader.
Newsmata reports that the unremorseful Ajayi, 32, who was saved from being lynched by irate mob after he was found with the freshly severed head of the deceased, confessed he killed her because she was cheating on him after seeing several chats with other men on her phone.
Ajayi was apprehended on Sunday, January 12 near a church, while trying to dispose of Adaidu’s severed head being carried in a black polythene bag. The victim had visited him at his residence in the Papalana area of New Karshi, Karu Local Government Area of Nasarawa State. Her dismembered remains were recovered from the house packed in six bags.
Salome’s uncle, Samson Adaji Adaidu, who spoke to Channels Television, said the Nigerian Police alerted the family of the incident, and demanded justice.
Expressing the family’s agony at the barbaric killing, he said “He has succeeded in destroying our daughter, not ordinary killing. He butchered her into pieces. He cut that body into more than 50 pieces, and when you look at the whole thing, he is preparing that body for consumption because he cut them and left them in about six polythene bags”.
Her elder sister, Esther Adaidu, said “I just need to know why he murdered my sister. I need Justice to be served, that is all that I need because any other thing that will happen will not bring my sister back to life; that I have come to terms with. But I just need the law to just take its full course on this guy”.
Ajayi however said he had no regret killing Salome who he claimed to be his girlfriend though the family said they had no knowledge of the relationship.
According to him, “I killed her because we don’t have each other all the time; it’s not something I planned. It happened on that day, and it happened. Not that I have the plan in mind; she was cheating.
“She hides most of the things from me most times. I got to know from her phone. I saw her chats with other guys on the phone, that was why I decided,”
Asked if he regretted his action, he said, “I don’t have any regrets because life is reciprocal that is what I thought. If you must do something to someone, you have to be reciprocal with that person.
“You have to understand what that person is going through so that you can actually put yourself in the position that the person is going through. That is why I don’t have any regrets because we were actually compatible.”
The Nasarawa Police Command has however assured that justice would be served after concluding their investigation.