A 51-year-old man Oluranti Badejo, is currently cooling off in one of the cells in Ogun state police command for beating his wife to death.
NigeriaCrime.com learned that the suspect was arrested following a report lodged at Mowe Divisional Headquarters by the younger sister of the deceased, who reported that she received information from her elder sister’s daughter that her elder sister Folasade Badejo, who lives with her husband at NO 7, Madam Felicia street, Orimerunmu, Mowe has been beaten to death by her husband.
Based on the report, DPO Mowe Division, SP Folake Afeniforo, quickly dispatched the divisional detectives to the scene where the suspect was promptly arrested.
The lifeless body of the 40-year-old victim was evacuated to the mortuary in Shagamu for post-mortem examination.
Confirming the arrest, SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, Police Public Relations Officer, Ogun State Police Command, said preliminary investigation revealed that the suspect strangled the deceased during a scuffle as a result of a minor disagreement.”
Oyeyemi explained that having realised that he has killed his wife, the suspect used a hot iron to burn parts of the body of the deceased, to look as if she was electrocuted.”
“But unfortunately for him, their 8 years old daughter was there and witnessed the whole thing. It was the daughter who testified seen her father strangulating her deceased mother to death.”
Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, CP Lanre Bankole, has directed that the suspect be taken to the Homicide section of the State Criminal Investigation Department for further investigation and diligent prosecution.