Ten persons have been arrested over the death of a four-year-old girl in Iwaya, Yaba, Lagos Mainland.
According to the Nation, she was said to have been sacrificed at a shrine..
Commissioner of Police Fatai Owoseni said yesterday that the killers would be brought to book.
She was found dead at midnight, 12 hours after she was declared missing by her parents on Tuesday.
According to Mr and Mrs Suleiman Taiwo, their daughter and two of her siblings left home for the mosque at 1pm.
Although her siblings returned after the prayers, she was nowhere to be found.
The Taiwos’ promptly raised the alarm and a search was began for her.
Her body was found at midnight at the Ogun shrine behind their house.
Her neck slashed with knife.
The distraught parents took the body to the Sabo Police Station where they met with the Divisional Police Officer (DPO).
Owoseni said he was informed of the incident by the Sabo DPO following the bereaved parents’ report.
He said;
“We saw the murder knife when we got there by 4am. We have arrested 10 persons and they are in our custody for interrogation. We are not saying they killed the child but there is a kind of conspiracy in the matter.
“We will question all of them. The area is densely populated. Seems like these days, people have thrown their morals into the dust bin, because I don’t know what a four-year-old child has done to be murdered.
“The shrine has been in that place for a long time and if it’s not a conspiracy of silence, the occupants must have known that human sacrifices are made in that shrine because this is not the first time such has happened.”