Carpenter Beats Wife To Death In Ogun
THE Police in Ogun State have arrested a 45-year-old man, Segun Omotosho Ebenezer, for beating his wife, Olubukola, to death over ownership of a private school in the state.
It was gathered that the suspect, a carpenter, beat his wife, an educationist, to death for establishing a private school in her name instead of his name.
Detectives arrested the suspect following a complaint at Kemta Divisional Police headquarters on November 14 by the elder sister of the deceased, who reported that she was beaten and seriously injured by her husband over a minor disagreement.
The deceased was rushed to Federal Medical Centre, Idi-Aba Abeokuta by the suspect for treatment, but died shortly after hospitalisation.
However, before the deceased passed on, she had sent a voice note to her family members, informing them that her husband struck her on the head with a padlock during a misunderstanding.
In the voice note, she also advised her family to hold the husband responsible in the event of death arising from the beating.
Ogun State Police Command spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi, who stated this on Monday, November 21, said when the voice note was played to the suspect’s hearing, he took to his heels when it dawned on him that the lethal assault and battery on his wife had been exposed.
Oyeyemi added that given the report and the recorded evidence, the Divisional Police Officer, Kemta Division, Adeniyi Adekunle, detailed detectives who fished the suspect out from his hideout in Akinseku village in Abeokuta.
“Preliminary investigation revealed that their incessant quarrel was because the deceased built a private school in the name of herself and the husband, but the husband, who is a carpenter had wanted to take over the control of the school, which the deceased, who was an NCE graduate refused.
“This has been the reason why the suspect has always been beating the deceased until the fateful day when he used the iron padlock to hit her on the head, which eventually led to her death,” Oyeyemi stated.
State Commissioner of Police, Lanre Bankole, directed that the suspect be transferred to homicide section of the state Criminal Investigation Departments for further investigation and diligent prosecution.
