A 24-year-old man, Mojiyagbe Olamilekan, is now in the custody of the Ogun State Police Command after allegedly stabbing his wife, Seun Majiyagbe to death.
The police said he committed the crime, using a pair of scissors, on Wednesday.
Ogun police spokesperson, Abimbola Oyeyemi, revealed this in a statement on Wednesday.
He said, “The suspect locked himself and his wife Seun Mojiyagbe up in their room and started beating her. It was the wailing of the wife that attracted the neighbours who tried all efforts to persuade the suspect to open the door but he refused.
“Upon the distress call, the DPO Ode-Remo Division, CSP Olayemi Fagbohun, quickly mobilised his men and moved to the scene where the door to the couple’s apartment was forced open.
“The victim was met lying down unconscious in the pool of her own blood.
“She was quickly rushed to the state hospital in Isara Remo where she was pronounced dead by the doctor on duty.
“The husband was promptly arrested and taken into custody, while the corpse of the victim has been deposited at the mortuary for autopsy.”
The PPRO, however, said the Commissioner of Police, Lanre Bankole had ordered the immediate transfer of the suspect to the homicide section of the state Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department for further investigation with the view to charging him to court as soon as possible.
