HERBALIST DETAINED IN OGUN FOR REPORTEDLY STARVING AND CHAINING HIS TWO CHILDREN TO DEATH.

Gbenga Ogunfadeke, 45, was detained by agents of the Ogun State Security Network, Amotekun Corps, on suspicion of torturing and killing his two children while they were being held in solitary confinement.

According to a statement released by David Akinremi, the State Commander of Amotekun, the suspect, a father of three, was apprehended in Ibiade, Waterside LGA, of the state as a result of a complaint from his ex-wife.

He claimed that since he obtained custody of the kids, whose ages vary from 16 to 17 and 18 years old, following his failed marriage to their mother Busola Otusegun, the suspect had been maltrating them.

The two older children, Yusuf Ogunfadeke (18) and Dasola Ogunfadeke (17), died between April and June 2022 in Ijebu-Ode, according to one of the three children who ran into his aunty in Ibiade, where he currently resides with his father (suspect).