A chilling confession has emerged from the Osun State Police Command regarding the brutal murder of Lasisi Funmilayo, a senior officer of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), and her 12-year-old daughter, Sewa.
Victor Fajemirokun, a 40-year-old friend of the deceased, has admitted to luring the mother and child to their deaths based on the advice of spiritualists who claimed the officer was “using his glory.”
Fajemirokun was paraded on Wednesday, December 3, 2025, alongside two alleged accomplices, herbalists Gboyega Daramola and Sunday James. The prime suspect, who had fled the country after the crime, was arrested in Ghana and repatriated to Nigeria through the efforts of Interpol.
The victims had been declared missing on Sunday, November 2, after leaving their home at the Obasanjo Hilltop Estate in Abeokuta, Ogun State. Their mutilated bodies were later discovered in a bush in Osun State, confirming fears of a ritual killing.
Fajemirokun, an Osogbo-based businessman, told journalists that he was driven by desperation after a spiritual consultation suggested that his lack of success was tied to Funmilayo’s existence. He admitted to deceiving his own wife that he was attending prayers in Ikoyi, Osun State, while he was actually transporting the victims to a herbalist’s den in Ijebu-Jesa.
“I met one Gboyega Daramola on TikTok. The agreement between Funmilayo and me was to go and meet him for spiritual cleansing. So when this man (Gboyega) did a spiritual consultation for me, he said Fumilayo was the one causing misfortune for me. So, he asked me to come with her,” he said.
He further detailed the grim events that took place once they arrived at the location.
“I went there with Funmilayo to his place at Ijebu-Ijesa. The man told Funmilayo that she had to do some rituals and instructed three men to take her to the bush to perform the rituals. It was in the bush that we k!lled her. The daughter went to the bush with us.
“After k!lling them, I ran to a mountain in Ikoyi. It was from there that I went to Ibadan. It was as if I was hypnotised. I never really wanted to do that. So, when we got there, I knew that they were going to kill her. I never knew they harvested their organs. I only heard that on the news, and that was when I decided to come back home.”
Sunday James, one of the herbalists involved, provided a corroborating account, stating that he acted on the orders of his superior, Daramola.
“I went to my boss’s house, where I met Victor, a woman, and a young girl. My boss (Daramola) told me that Victor had gone to an alfa before, where he was told that his woman friend had used his glory. So, he was there for them to k!ll his wife and his child,” James said.
“So, my boss ordered me to k!ll them and threatened me. We took them to a bush where we used a knife to slit their throats. After that, we cut the woman into pieces.”
While Daramola denied being physically present during the murders, he was identified as the one who authorized the killing.
The Osun State Commissioner of Police, CP Gotan, provided the timeline of the investigation. He noted that Fajemirokun had initially been reported missing himself before intelligence linked him to the crime.
“Subsequently, through intelligence-led investigation and painstaking analysis, on the 16th November, 2025, one Gboyega Daramola ‘m’ a.k.a. ‘Aberefa’ was arrested and confirmed to be an herbalist,” the CP stated.
“During his interrogation, he emphatically confessed that one Fajemirokun Victor ‘m’ was one of his customers, that on the 2nd November, 2025, a woman and her daughter were brought to him by Fajemirokun Victor ‘m’ for a money ritual, and the subject had been killed. He further mentioned one Sunday James ‘m’, one Kehinde, and one Idowu to be part of the killers.
“Furthermore, on Monday, 17th November, 2025, the suspect Gboyega Daramola ‘m’ a.k.a. “Aberefa” led the detectives to Esa-Odo Dam, Osun State, where the body of one Lasisi Funmilayo Oluwamayokun ‘f’ 38yrs was dumped, who happens to be a senior officer of the Federal Road Safety Corp (FRSC) serving in Ogun State.
“Thereafter, it was recovered and deposited at UNIOSUN Teaching Hospital Morgue for autopsy. Meanwhile, some vital parts of the body, such as the head, breast, two hands, private parts, and others were missing.”
The investigation subsequently led to the arrest of Sunday James in Ekiti State.
“During interrogation, he confessed to being the one who slaughtered both mother and her daughter on the instruction of his boss, herbalist, Gboyega Daramola a.k.a. Aberefa’ while the duo of Kehinde and Idowu were the ones who butchered the body.
“However, the suspect, Sunday James, led the detectives to recover the body of the daughter, Sewa Lasisi, from the bush where she was k!lled. Likewise, some vital parts of the body, such as the head, the two hands, and the feet were missing. The remains were also deposited at UNIOSUN Teaching Hospital Morgue
“However, it was gathered that Fajemirokun Victor, who masterminded the k!lling, had absconded from being arrested. Through the collaboration with Interpol, Victor Fajemirokun was apprehended in Ghana and repatriated to Nigeria,” Gotan further said.
The police have assured the public that efforts are underway to apprehend the remaining suspects and that all involved will face the full wrath of the law.
