Operatives of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested a 45-year-old man for allegedly beating his wife to death, authorities from the Command reports on Monday.
According to the statement released on Monday 21st November 2022, by the Ogun State Police Command Police Public Relations Officer, SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, the identified the 45-year-old man, as Segun Omotosho Ebenezer, who was arrested by on Sunday 20th of November 2022 arrested for beaten his 42-year-old wife Omotosho Bukola to death.
SP Abimbola Oyeyemi stated that t 45-year-old man was arrested following a complaint lodged at Kemta divisional headquarters on the 14th of November 2022, by the elder sister of the deceased, who reported that the deceased was beaten and seriously injured by her husband over a minor disagreement.
The deceased was subsequently rushed to Federal Medical Centre, Idi-Aba Abeokuta, by the suspect for medical attention, but gave up the ghost while receiving treatment. Unknown to the husband, the deceased had sent a voice note to her family member, informing them that her husband has used a padlock to hit her on the head while beating her, and that if she died, they should be aware that it was her husband that killed her.
As soon as the voice note was played to his hearing, the 45-year-old man took to his heels having realized that his evil deed had been exposed. Upon the report and the recording evidence, the DPO Kemta division, CSP Adeniyi Adekunle, detailed his detectives to go after the killer’s husband and fish him out from wherever he might be. He was subsequently traced to Akinseku village Abeokuta where he has been hibernating and was promptly apprehended.
SP Abimbola Oyeyemi in his statement stated that a preliminary investigation revealed that, their incessant quarrel was because the deceased built a private school in the name of herself and the husband, but the 45-year-old man who is a carpenter had wanted to take control of the school which the deceased wife who was an NCE graduate refused.
This is the reason why the suspect has been beating the deceased, until the fateful day when he used t iron padlock to hit her on the head, which eventually led to her untimely death.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, CP Lanre S. Bankole, has directed the suspect to be transferred to the Homicide section of the State criminal investigation departments for further investigation and diligent prosecution.