A
woman, Omolara Oluwagbemi, has killed her would be husband two months to their
wedding in Ijebu-Ode town of Ogun State.
The Ogun State Police
Command Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, who confirmed the incident
to Premium Times on Friday said the suspect has been arrested.
“The men of Ogun State
Police Command have arrested one Omolara Oluwagbemi Abosede for killing her
husband, one Sodiq Dauda,” Mr. Oyeyemi said.
‘The incident happened
when the couple whose wedding was slated for December this year had minor
disagreement which emanated from non rendering proper account of the gas
business which the late husband entrusted to the wife,” he added.
Mr. Oyeyemi said the
suspect during interrogation claimed that her husband beat her up and sent her
away from their apartment. Ms. Abosede reportedly told the police that she went
back home after calling her mother-in-law to be who said she would settle the
dispute.
The police spokesman
said the suspect stated that immediately she got home, the husband descended on
her, beat her and broke a bottle with which he threatened to stab her.
The suspect also
reportedly told her interrogators that it was then she took a kitchen knife
with which she stabbed him on the rib.
“The victim was rushed
to Ijebu-Ode General Hospital by the policemen at Igbeba Division but gave up
the ghost the following day while undergoing treatment,” he said.
Mr. Oyeyemi said the Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Iliyasu,
has ordered that the suspect be transferred to homicide section of State
Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, SCIID, for further
investigation.
-Premium Times
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