Sunday Shodipe
Oyo State serial killer, Sunday Shodipe, who escaped from police custody on August 11 has been rearrested by the police.
The 19 year-old Shodipe,who confessed to killing no fewer than five persons, mostly women, in Akinyele Local Government Area of Oyo State.
The spokesman of the Oyo State Police Command, Gbenga Fadeyi, confirmed the rearrest of Shodipe on Sunday. Local vigilance group and traditionalist who were said to have done a lot of consultation and performed rites overnight, also participated in the arrest. People in Akinyele local government who had protested his escape, allegedly assisted by an Inspector of Police, who was not on duty on the fateful August 11. This made the police to place a N500, 000 bounty for his rearrest, following protest of irate youths at the police station.
Available information has it that he was rearrested in the home of his grandmother in Ojoo area of Ibadan.
