A 40-year-old man, Michael Salako, was on Wednesday July 28, 2021 arrested by men of the Ogun State police command for beating a commercial motorcyclist (popularly known as Okada) to death at the Lafenwa area of Abeokuta, the state capital.
The suspect was arrested following a distress call received by the Divisional Police Officer of Lafenwa divisional headquarters, CSP Samuel Aladegoroye, that an Okada rider had been beaten to death at Sanni Street, Lafenwa, Abeokuta.
CSP Aladegoroye promptly mobilized his men and moved to the scene where the suspect was arrested.
On interrogation, the suspect, who claimed to have known the deceased in their community, told the police that he asked the deceased to take him somewhere with his motorcycle the previous day and the deceased refused.
On that fateful day, he saw him and was trying to question him (deceased) why he refused to take him out the previous day, and a quarrel ensued between them, which led to fisticuffs.
The deceased collapsed and gave up the ghost.
The corpse of the victim, simply identified as Abudu, has been deposited in the morgue for autopsy, according to a statement by the police command’s spokesman, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, Edward Awolowo Ajogun, 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.