45-year-old man Kolese Womiloju of Gbagba Elewure village in Odeda Local
Government Area of Ogun State and his 25-year-old son Taiwo have been arrested
by men of the Ogun State Police Command for conspiracy and murder of one
Abubakar Sidi Usman, a 32-year-old herdsman.
The Public Relations Officer of
the Command, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi stated that “the suspects were arrested
following a report by one Usman Bello who reported at Odeda Divisional Headquarters
that the deceased who was his younger brother and owner of a cattle settlement
at Gbagba Elewure village had gone missing. Upon his report, a search party was
put together. Later in the evening, the deceased’s corpse was found in an
abandoned well in a nearby bush where he was thrown into after killing him”.
Oyeyemi also made it known that “the
DPO Odeda Division, CSP Ajayi Williams led his detectives to the scene where
the victim was seen with deep machete cuts all over his body. Having confirmed
that the deceased was murdered in cold blood, the DPO and his men commenced an
intelligence-based investigation into the case which led to the arrest of a
father and his son who also live in the same village with the victim”.
He stated further that on
interrogation, they both confessed to the killing of the deceased because they
saw him grazing his cows around their farm. “They stated further that the deceased
was warned to take his cattle away from the area and when he refused, he was
beaten with a charmed ring which made him to be unconscious after which he was hacked
to death. He was then dragged to an abandoned well about one kilometer to the place and dumped
there”, Oyeyemi disclosed.
He also made it known that the
Commissioner of Police, CP Kenneth Ebrimson has ordered that the suspects be
transferred to the Homicide Section of the State Criminal Investigation and
Intelligence Department for further investigation and diligent prosecution.
The CP also affirmed that “those who are in the habit of taking laws
into their own hands will not find it easy with the Command because jungle
justice has no place in our laws”.
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