Man slaughters neighbor in Ogun for hand set
The Ogun state police command have arrested 27-year-old
Ejike Opata, pictured above, for killing his 50-year-old neighbor, Adeyiba
Oladipupo, at their house in Ayegbami, Ijebu Ode.
A statement from the
state police command spokesperson, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said trouble started when
the deceased accused the suspect of stealing her phone. Ejike in anger, picked
up a cutlass and butchered Oladipupo, killing her in the process. Realising he
had committed a grievous crime, Ejike fled the scene and went into hiding. The
matter was reported to the police at Obalende Division by the brother of the
deceased.
The police spokesperson said a manhunt was launched for the
suspect and he was picked up over the weekend at a motorpark while boarding a
bus to his home state, Ebonyi.
“Detectives visited the scene and recovered
the corpse to Ijebu Ode General Hospital mortuary for autopsy. Serious manhunt
was launched for the fleeing suspect. The efforts of the detectives yeilded
positive result on March 1, when the suspect was about boarding an Ebonyi state
bound motor but was apprehended by policemen who have already laid ambush for
him due to intelligence information they got.
On interrogation,
the suspect, a native of Onueke in Eza South Local Government Area of Ebonyi
State confessed matcheting the deceased to death because she accused him of
stealing a phone which infuriated him. He confessed further that he cut off the
woman’s two hands because she wanted to struggle the cutlass with him.
The Commissioner
of Police (CP) Kenneth Ebrimson has ordered the immediate transfer of the
suspect to homicide section of the State Criminal Investigation and
Intelligence Department (SCIID) for further investigation and prosecution.” he
said
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