Lagos: Jealous lover bludgeons girlfriend to death with sledgehammer

• The insecure lover was said to have bludgeoned his girlfriend to death with a sledgehammer.
• The incident happened in a yet-to-be-disclosed area of the south west state.

One Samuel Adeniyi has been apprehended for allegedly killing his girlfriend, the police in Lagos State have disclosed.

The insecure lover was said to have bludgeoned his girlfriend to death with a sledgehammer.

The state Commissioner of Police, Idowu Owohunwa, made the disclosure while addressing newsmen at the Police Officers Mess, Ikeja, Lagos on Thursday.

The incident happened in a yet-to-be-disclosed area of the south west state.

Owohunwa said the suspect cited paranoia stemming from fear of being dumped by the yet-to-be-identified girlfriend for snuffing life out of her.

The CP while parading suspects in Lagos said, “One Samuel Adeniyi got consumed by emotions and smashed the head of his girlfriend, and killed her. He (Adeniyi) said he suspected that the girl may leave him and perhaps for just that reason, he killed her and ran away. We have succeeded in arresting him and recovering the sledgehammer that he used and we will bring him to justice.”

Parading other suspected criminals in Lagos, the CP disclosed that within one month of launching Operation Flush, the police had recorded successes by raiding criminal hideouts and arresting suspected cultists and armed traffic robbers among others.

He also said police in the state arrested suspects linked to the killing of a policeman in the Ikeja area of Lagos

He said, “It’s exactly a month that we launched Operation Flush which was designed to reclaim the public space from criminal elements that emerged at some point to threaten the internal security order in Lagos State.

“Within the past two weeks, we recovered 18 firearms including two AK 47 rifles, one locally fabricated and one very unique gun. It is a form of weapon that has never been found in the armoury of criminals in this country, it was also recovered.

“Two locally fabricated toy guns that were used to perfect robbery were also recovered. Fifteen cartridges, four expended cartridges, six matches, 34 bags of weeds suspected to be Indian hemp, and two bags containing fake US dollars and Pounds Sterling notes were recovered as well.”

Owohunwa noted that six kegs of fake Total engine oil were also recovered in another operation saying, “This again points to the fact that there is a syndicate adulterating engine oil within Lagos. That syndicate has also been cracked.”