An Osun State Magistrate’s Court sitting in Osogbo has ordered the remand of three suspects arrested in connection with the murder of a Federal Road Safety Corps officer, Lasisi Oluwamayokun, and her 10-year-old daughter, Adesewa, at the Ilesa Correctional Centre until February 6, 2026.
The suspects Gboyega Daramola, 39; Sunday James, 38; and Fajemirokun Victor, 36 were arraigned before Magistrate O. A. Daramola on Friday in suit number MoS/M-53/2026, following their arrest in what investigators have described as a ritual killing.
The three defendants were brought before the court by the Osun State Commissioner of Police, who filed a motion ex parte seeking an order to remand them pending legal advice from the Ministry of Justice on the appropriate charges to be preferred against them.
In an affidavit in support of the motion, deposed to by the Investigating Police Officer, Inspector Babawale Taiwo, and obtained in Osogbo on Sunday, the applicant urged the court to remand the defendants while awaiting advice from the Office of the Director of Public Prosecution.
Providing details of the alleged offences in the affidavit dated January 16, 2026, the IPO stated that on November 10, 2025, Oluwafemi Fajemirokun and Mariam Fajemirokun of Number 34, Akande Street, Alekuwodo, Osogbo, reported at the Ikoyi Police Divisional Headquarters that their younger brother, Victor Fajemirokun Emmanuel, 40, had gone missing after leaving Osogbo on November 2, 2025, for prayer activities at Ikoyi Prayer Mountain.
The affidavit further stated that during the investigation, it was discovered that Lasisi Funmilayo Oluwamayokun, 39, and her daughter, Lasisi Sewa, 10, both from Abeokuta, Ogun State, also went missing on the same date, November 2, 2025.
“Further investigation revealed that Victor Fajemirokun murdered the victims for ritual purposes. The respondents gruesomely murdered the victim and her daughter and dismembered their bodies. Victor Fajemirokun was identified as the mastermind of the crime,” the affidavit stated.
The deponent cited the Administration of Criminal Justice Law of Osun State, 2018, noting that a court order was required to remand the suspects in a correctional centre pending the outcome of legal advice from the Director of Public Prosecution, in line with established criminal procedure.
In her ruling, Magistrate Daramola ordered that “the defendants be remanded at the Ilesa Correctional Centre until February 6, 2026,” when the matter is expected to come up for further hearing or possible transfer to a higher court with jurisdiction to try capital offences.
The burial service for Oluwamayokun and her daughter, Adesewa, was held on Friday at St. John’s Anglican Church Cemetery, Ita-Olookan, Osogbo, bringing to a close weeks of anguish for the bereaved family and colleagues of the deceased FRSC officer.
Oluwamayokun, 38, who served with the Federal Road Safety Corps, Ogun State Command, and her daughter went missing on Sunday, November 2, 2025, after leaving their residence at Obasanjo Hilltop Estate, Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta. Their disappearance triggered a search operation that stretched across Ogun and Osun States.
They were later confirmed dead after allegedly being lured by a man-friend of the deceased, Victor Fajemirokun, who was subsequently arrested by operatives of the Osun State Police Command following intelligence-led investigations.
Fajemirokun reportedly admitted to luring the victims to their deaths at the hands of ritualists in Osun State when he was paraded by the police alongside two herbalists, Gboyega Daramola and Sunday James, at the Osun State Police Command headquarters in Osogbo.
The case has reignited public concern over the persistence of ritual killings in parts of Nigeria, particularly in the Southwest region, where law enforcement agencies have in recent years recorded multiple arrests linked to suspected ritualists and herbalists involved in heinous crimes.
Ritual killings, often driven by beliefs in the efficacy of human body parts for money-making rituals or spiritual fortification, remain a recurring challenge for security agencies despite sustained public awareness campaigns and stricter enforcement of laws against such practices.
The Federal Road Safety Corps has also expressed grief over the loss of one of its officers and called for justice to be swiftly served in the case. The FRSC, established in 1988, is responsible for road safety administration and enforcement across Nigeria and has lost several officers to violence and accidents in the line of duty over the years.
As the case progresses, legal observers expect that the Director of Public Prosecution will advise on whether the matter should be transferred to the Osun State High Court, which has jurisdiction over capital offences such as murder, and whether additional charges will be filed against the suspects.
The next hearing date of February 6, 2026, will determine the legal trajectory of the case and whether the prosecution has assembled sufficient evidence to proceed to trial in a higher court.
