The Ogun State Police Command says it
has arrested one Okwudili Okoro for allegedly hacking to death his elder
brother, Azuibike Okoro and his wife, Jacinta.
The suspect was said to have been
arrested after one Joseph Nwagu reported at the Sango Police Division of
the command that the couple had been killed by the suspect and one
Kenneth, who came from Sapon in Abeokuta to join in committing the
crime.
On receiving the report, the Divisional
Police Officer, Sango division, Nasirudeen Oyedele, reportedly led
detectives to the scene where the suspect was arrested.
His accomplice was, however, said to have escaped.
The state Police Public Relations
Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said on interrogation, the Ebonyi State
indigene claimed to have served his deceased brother as an apprentice in
his cosmetics trade for three years, and when it was time for him to be
settled, his brother made excuses.
Oyeyemi said the suspect further added
that when he realised that his brother was not ready to settle him, he
contracted his accomplice, Kenneth.
“The suspect told the police that they
bought two cutlasses, sharpened them and headed for his deceased
brother’s house in the Ijako area of the state.
“The suspect further told his
interrogators that on getting to the deceased’s house, they met him
eating with his wife and before he could utter a word, they had
descended heavily on them with the cutlasses and hacked them to death,”
the police spokesman said.
Oyeyemi noted that the two corpses had
been deposited in the mortuary at the state General Hospital, Ota, for
post-mortem examination.
Meanwhile, the state Commissioner of
Police, Ahmed Iliyasu, has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspect
to the Homicide Section of the State Criminal Investigation and
Intelligence Department, Abeokuta, for investigation.
He also directed that the fleeing accomplice be hunted and brought to book within the shortest possible time.
Iliyasu appealed to residents of the
state not to take any threat to their lives lightly by reporting such to
the police no matter who was involved.
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