Kwara state court orders remand of Islamic cleric for gruesome murder of final year student

February 19, 2025

By Adedoja Adesoji

A 29-year-old self-acclaimed Islamic cleric, Abdulrahman Mohammed Bello, has been remanded in prison by the Kwara State magistrates’ court sitting in Ilorin for the murder of a final year student, Lawal Hafsah Yetunde.

Yetunde, 24, was a student at the Kwara State College of Education and was allegedly killed and dismembered by the suspect.

Abdulrahman was charged alongside four accomplices – Ahmed Abulwasiu, Sulaiman Muhydeen, Jamiu Uthman, and AbdulRahman Jamiu – and others at large, with criminal conspiracy, culpable homicide, armed robbery, and being in possession of human parts.

According to the police First Information Report (FIR), Abdulrahman and the five other suspects belong to the same occult group and confessed to robbing and killing the lady for ritual purposes.

Prosecutor Matthew Ologbonsaye urged the court to remand the suspect, and the defendants are currently without counsel.