A 30-year-old housewife, Cynthia Olukiowu, of 2, Apogidonoyo Street, Jafa Agbado, Ogun State was on February 5, 2022 arrested by men of the Ogun State Police Command for stabbing one Habeeb Aremu, an eighteen-year-old nephew of her husband, to death over a minor disagreement.
This was disclosed by the spokesman of the Police Command, Abimbola Oyeyemi, in a statement he issued on Sunday.
Oyeyemi said Olukiowu was arrested following a distress call received by policemen attached to Agbado Divisional Police Headquarters that a boy has been stabbed on the neck by his uncle’s wife following a misunderstanding about a mirror allegedly broken by the deceased.
It was revealed that a mirror been used in the house got broken and the deceased was alleged to have broken it.
It was the allegation that led to disagreement between the deceased and his uncle’s wife, subsequent upon which the suspect took a kitchen knife and used it to stab the deceased on his neck.
Upon the distress call, the Divisional Police Officer, Agbado Division, CSP Kehinde Kuranga, quickly led his men to the scene, where the suspect was promptly arrested and Aremu, who was in a pool of his own blood, was rushed to hospital.
He was confirmed dead by the doctor on duty and his corpse was deposited at Ifo general hospital mortuary for autopsy.
The Command’s Commissioner, CP Lanre Bankole, has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspect to the Homicide Section of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department for further investigation and diligent prosecution.