A 24 years old man, Mojiyagbe Olamilekan, has been arrested by the police for allegedly stabbing his wife to death with scissors in the Oke ola area of Ode Remo, Ogun state.
The suspect was arrested following a distress call received by the police in Ode Remo divisional headquarters at about 3 pm on Wednesday 3rd of November 2021, that the suspect locked himself and his wife, one Seun Mojiyagbe, up in their room, and started beating the wife, and that it was the wife’s voice that attracted the neighbors who tried all efforts to persuade the suspect to open the door but he refused.
Upon the distress call, the DPO Ode Remo division, CSP Olayemi Fagbohun, quickly mobilized his men and moved to the scene where the door to the couple’s apartment was forced open. The victim was found lying down unconscious in the pool of her own blood.
She was quickly rushed to the state hospital in Isara Remo where she was pronounced dead by the doctor on duty.
The husband was promptly arrested and taken to custody, while the corpse of the victim has been deposited at the mortuary for autopsy.
Spokesperson of the state police command, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, who confirmed the incident said the state commissioner of police CP Lanre Bankole has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspect to homicide section of the state criminal investigation and intelligence department for further investigation with the view to charge him to court as soon as possible.