The Ogun State Police Command announced Philip’s arrest in a statement by its spokesperson, Omolola Odutola, on Friday, October 4, 2024,Police investigation revealed that the suspect, said to be a serial killer, had escaped from the Ibara Correctional Centre about two years ago while being taken to the Magistrate Court in Isabo for an ongoing armed robbery case.The command disclosed that victims of his crimes included 18-year-old Akinsanya Habibat, 22-year-old Abigail Dina, and 23-year-old Mary Ogunyemi.
According to the police, Philip’s method was to lure his unsuspecting victims into the forest, where he would tie them up, strangle them, and then abandon their bodies after stealing their phones and other valuables.
Odutola said the suspect had confessed to killing the three victims and leaving their bodies in the forest. Consequently, he led the police’s anti-kidnapping squad to multiple locations where the victims were murdered.
Police said Dina, a nurse, left her home at 8:10 am on May 6, 2024, in Iyana Egbado, Ewekoro Local Government, heading to her workplace at Sodipo Medical Centre in Itori, when she was abducted by the suspect and taken to an unknown forest in Itori.