A 24-year-old man, Mojiyagbe Olamilekan, a resident of Oke Ola area of Ode Remo in Ogun State, has been arrested by operatives of the Ogun State Police Command for stabbing his wife to death with scissors.
The spokesman of the Command, Abimbola Oyeyemi, revealed this in a statement he issued on Wednesday evening.
Oyeyemi said the suspect was arrested following a distress call received by the police in Ode Remo Divisional Headquarters at about 3pm on November 3, 2021.
Olamilekan was said to have locked himself and his wife, Seun Mojiyagbe, up in their room and started beating her.
It was the wailing of the wife that attracted neighbours, who tried all efforts to persuade the suspect to open the door but he refused.
Upon the distress call, the Divisional Police Officer, Ode Remo Division, Chief Superintendent of Police Olayemi Fagbohun, quickly mobilised his men and moved to the scene, where the door to the couple’s apartment was forced opened.
Mojiyagbe was met lying down unconscious in the pool of her own blood.
She was quickly rushed to the state hospital in Isara Remo, where she was pronounced dead by the doctor on duty.
The husband was promptly arrested and taken into custody, while the corpse of the victim has been deposited at the mortuary for autopsy.
The Commissioner, Ogun State Police Command, 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 with the view to charge him to court as soon as possible.
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