Crime

FraudsterAllegedly Kills Girlfriend in Dispute over Money

By Web News 708

Ogun State Police Command has arrested a twenty-seven years old internet fraudster, Obeta John arrested for killing his girlfriend Idowu Buhari, an HND1 Mass Communication student of Gateway Polytechnic, Saapade, Ogun State.

According to the State Police Command spokesman, Mr. Abimbola Oyeyemi, the suspect was arrested by the Ode -Remo Divisional Headquarters after a report that the suspect was fighting with the deceased in his room.

He said the deceased was met in her pool of blood when police forced the door open. 

Mr. Oyeyemi said the victim was pronounced dead by the doctor on duty at the State Hospital Ishara on arrival.

He said the suspect on interrogation said that an amount of money from one of his clients was paid into the deceased account, which she refused to relinquish to him.

The police said the suspect also confessed that it was the argument over the said money that led to the scuffle which eventually led to her death.

Ogun State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Lanre Bankole has since ordered the immediate transfer of the suspect to the Homicide section of the State Criminal Investigation Department for further investigation and prosecution.

Wale Oluokun

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Security

Couple, Two Others Apprehended for Alleged Possession of Human Skull

By Web News 611

The Ogun state Police command have arrested a couple Niyi and Remilekun Folorunso and two others, Muyideen Tolubi and a herbalist, Sonubi Taiwo, for being in possession of a suspected human skull.

The state Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, in a statement said the four suspects were arrested last Thursday following information received by the police that the suspects were digging a grave in Odogbolu.

According to him, the DPO Odogbolu division, CSP Afolabi Yusuf based on intelligent information, led his detectives to the scene but the suspects had already removed the head of the corpse and left.

The three of the suspects confessed to being the persons that dug the grave and decapitated the corpse and later took the detectives to Ikenne, where the fourth person who asked them to bring the head for ritual purpose was apprehended.

DSP Oyeyemi said the state Commissioner of Police, Edward Ajogun, had ordered the immediate transfer of the suspects to the state Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department for further investigation and prosecution.

Modupeola Sobukonla