Men of the Ogun State Police Command have apprehended three herdsmen over the murder of a 40-year-old farmer, Rafiu Sowemimo, on Sunday 14th July 2019.
"The arrest of the suspects", according to DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, the Command's spokesman, "followed a distress call by people of Adao Village in Alabata area of Odeda Local Government Area, that some herdsmen, while grazing their cattle entered the farm of one Rafiu Sowemimo and destroyed some of his crops".
Oyeyemi stated that "the victim thereafter accosted the herders and challenged them to know the reason behind their destructive action. This led to altercation between him and the herders, consequent upon which the herdsmen stabbed him to death.
On receiving the information, the Commissioner of Police, CP Bashir Makama directed the Deputy Commissioner of Police in-charge of operations and that of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department to move into the scene and ensure that the culprits were brought to book".
Oyeyemi said "in compliance with the CP's directive, the officers led other policemen to the scene and with information from the natives; they were able to arrest the three herders who perpetrated the heinous crime".
Names of the arrested suspects were given as Muhammed Adamu, Saliu Ismail and Saliu Adamu.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, who has been to the village to condole the family of the victim has ordered the transfer of the suspects to the Homicide section of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department for proper investigation and prosecution.
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