Two people have been arrested by men of the Ogun State
Police Command, in connection with the murder of a yet to be identified commercial
motorcyclist. 22-year-old Lekan Odusote, a resident of Sanga area, Ijebu Ode
and Monday John, 22, of Molipa Estate, Ijebu Ode were arrested on Tuesday 20th,
August, 2019.
“The two suspects lured the bike man to Ikangba area,
Obalende in Ijebu Ode where they killed him and took his corpse to an
uncompleted building, dug a shallow grave and buried him there”, DSP Abimbola
Oyeyemi, the Public Relations Officer of the Command disclosed in a statement.
He continued that after burying the motorcyclist, “they took
his motorcycle to Ijebu-Igbo where they sold it at the rate of N120,000. Luck
however ran against them when they were about to share the money because of
their inability to agree on a particular sharing formula”. Oyeyemi made it
known that the serious altercation between them over the sharing of the
proceeds of the crime and some of their pronouncements aroused the suspicion of
people around and they informed the police.
After the arrest of the suspects by detectives from the
Obalende Division, Oyeyemi confirmed that “they confessed luring an Okada man
to an isolated area where they killed him and took possession of the motorcycle
which they sold, and the sharing formula of the proceeds caused a disagreement
between them. The suspects have taken police to the uncompleted building where
the victim was buried, and the corpse has been recovered and taken to mortuary
for post mortem examination”.
The Commissioner of
Police, CP Bashir Makama has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspects to
the Homicide Section of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence
Department for further investigation and prosecution.
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