Kunle Olayeni, Abeokuta
Police in Ogun State have arrested a teenager, Idowu Abosede, for allegedly stabbing her boyfriend, Aliyu Ibrahim, to death.
The suspect, 18, was arrested in Sagamu following an argument between her and the deceased over the sum of N3000.
A statement yesterday by the Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Abimbola Oyeyemi, said that the teenager used knife to stab her lover in the chest.
Oyeyemi further explained: “The suspect was arrested following a distress call from Seriki Hausa in Sagamu that the suspect and her deceased boyfriend, were arguing over the sum of N3000 as a result of which they were struggling for possession of a knife. The girl eventually got possession used the knife to stab the boyfriend on his chest which resulted to his death. On receiving the distress call, the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) in charge of Shagamu Police Station, a Superintendent of Police (SP) Okiki Agunbiade, detailed his detectives to the scene where the suspected teenager was arrested. The blood stained knife which he used to stab the deceased was also recovered.”
Oyeyemi stated that on interrogation, the suspect claimed that she came to pass the night with the deceased and when she was about leaving in the morning, she took the sum of N3000 from the deceased, but he refused to allow her to leave with the while N3000. They started quarreling.
Oyeyemi said: “She further stated that it was the deceased who brought out the knife and while dragging it with him, the knife stabbed him on his chest.”
The police spokesman, however, stated that the corpse of the deceased had been released to his relations on their demand for burial in accordance with Islamic rites.
He added that the Ogun State Commissioner of Police, Kenneth Ebrimson, has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspect to Homicide Section of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (SCIID) for further investigation and prosecution.
First Published 2020.
