MERCY Henry, a 35-year-old declared-missing mother of two children, has been confirmed dead on January 20th, 2022. Her body was found, mutilated and buried in different sacks behind a building belonging to the prime suspect, Mr. Mayowa Timothy Bamidele.
Recall that AlimoshoToday published a story on the missing Mercy Henry recently.
Mr. Mayowa Bamidele had repeatedly denied seeing Mercy, saying that he last saw her four years ago.The deceased’s grieving father, Pa Henry Ekienabor, 70, reacted to the development with strong emotions.
“It’s rather unfortunate that my daughter was killed, mutilated and buried at the back of Mayowa’s house. She was killed on the same December 16th, 2021 that she left home.
"Police called my son on January 14th, 2022, to tell us the development. I was hoping and praying that maybe they had been able to track and locate where her captors kept her. The Police told us that she was murdered in cold blood, mutilated and then buried.
"After mutilating her corpse, she was then packed into five sacks and buried at the back of Mayowa’s house. Police have gone to the scene to exhume her remains", the father of the victim disclosed.
Pa Ekienabor further explained: “The breakthrough in the case was said to have started after the Police arrested four people alongside Mayowa. During interrogation, the detectives appealed to the four suspects that anyone who gives them useful information wouldn’t be punished. One of the four men raised his hand and then volunteered information to the police. Police went there, searched the house and zeroed in on the spot where Mercy was buried.
"Police recovered her handbag, Automated Teller Machine (ATM) card and her phone. These items were hidden in one of the uncompleted houses inside the blocks there. Till tomorrow, Mayowa is still denying knowing anything about the matter, but when the police brought him out of the cell after interrogating the other four suspects; he saw them and almost collapsed. Yes, he knows them. They are working together, so he couldn't deny it." Pa Ekienabor said.
The father of the deceased fears that Mayowa probably killed Mercy for money ritual purposes: “All the men of God, women of God, pastors, Bishops, I went to, all assured me Mercy was being kept somewhere, that we should pray, that she would come out, we didn’t know that she had been killed and buried for long. Yes, she was killed three minutes after her friend, Ayo, transferred ₦30,000 into Mayowa’s First Bank Account.”
Mercy told her family that she was heading to Ijegun, a suburb of the Ikotun; on December 16th, 2022. She however, never mentioned the name of the person she was going to visit.
