A 25-year-old man, Bisi Omoniyi, has been arrested by operatives of the Ogun State Police Command for killing a 50-year-old man he met at his woman friend’s house.
The spokesman of the Command, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said the man was arrested on October 15, 2021 for the crime.
Oyeyemi said the suspect was arrested following a distress call received by the police in Owode Egbado Divisional Headquarters that a young man had macheted another man to death in Ajilete town.
Upon the distress call, the Divisional Police Officer, Owode Egbado, Chief Superintendent of Police Olabisi Elebute, quickly mobilised his patrol team to the scene, where the suspect was promptly arrested and the victim rushed to the hospital but was confirmed dead by the doctor on duty.
Preliminary investigation revealed that the victim, Akinyemi Wahab Alani, aka Ajiolopon, was with his woman friend, one Kafayat Sakariyau, in her room apartment at Ajilete purposely to pass the night with her when the suspect, who also intended to pass the night with the same woman, came knocking but was denied entry.
Omoniyi, who came from Ibasa area of Okeodan, forced his way into the woman’s room and met the deceased there in a position the suspect described as unacceptable to him.
Consequently, a fight ensued between them and the suspect picked a cutlass in the room and macheted Alani to death.
The corpse of the deceased has been deposited at the general hospital mortuary for autopsy, while the woman in the center of the crisis has since taken to flight, Oyeyemi said.
The Commissioner of Police, 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.
