On Friday, October 3, 2025, reports from the Daily Post revealed that panic gripped Roro village, situated along Mile 8 in Obafemi Owode Local Government Area of Ogun State, when a cattle herder announced that his son had vanished after being chased away from a farmland.
Speculation soon spread across the community, with many fearing that Fulani herdsmen were preparing an attack, even as the desperate search for the missing boy intensified.
Security operatives, local hunters, and villagers joined forces to track him down. Sadly, their efforts ended with the grim discovery of his remains buried in a shallow grave.
Information obtained by Daily Post indicated that traditional rulers advised residents to undergo an oath-taking ritual, which they believed would reveal the truth within a week.
However, before the process could be carried out, a man identified as Taiwo Amos—a farmer and hunter—admitted that he was responsible for the killing.
“A voice pushed me to do it,” Amos recounts
According to his testimony, on Tuesday, September 2, Amos, a widower with three children, went to his farm after a church service to check if a trap he had set caught any animal.
On getting there, he came across a lone young herder with his cattle. He said a sudden, overwhelming impulse urged him to end the boy’s life.
“I came back from church, stood up and went to check on my trap. When I got to the bush I saw him(herds-boy) from a distance and a thought just came to my mind, telling me to go and kill him.
Without hesitation, I rushed toward him and did it. It was after the act that I noticed the cows scattered all over,” he narrated.
When questioned on whether the livestock had damaged his crops, which might have provoked the attack, he denied it outright.
“He never wronged me, and even his cattle did not touch my farmland,” he said.
The killing unsettled the community, leaving residents unsure whether Amos’ actions were driven by insanity or by deliberate cruelty.
Amos, who maintained that he acted entirely on his own, said he confessed only because he feared the traditional oath would expose him and harm his innocent family.
He revealed, “When the elders proposed the oath, I panicked and went to tell the hunters the truth—that I was the one who killed the Fulani boy. That was how I ended up in police custody. At first, I lied to the police, claiming I heard shouts of ‘thief’ and someone told me to shoot. But that was false. I decided to come clean because I feared curses on those I wrongly accused, and I don’t want my children to suffer for my lies.”
Explaining further, he said exhaustion led him to mutilate the boy’s body before burying it:
“I cut off his legs because I was too tired to dig a full grave. I buried him alone—no one assisted me, and no one saw me carry out the shooting.”
Begging for leniency, he added, “I appeal to the government to forgive me. This is my first crime.” See, More, Here>>>>
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