Operatives of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested a man for allegedly setting his wife ablaze in the Ibogun area of the state.
The suspect according to the statement released by the State’s PPRO, on Friday, Abimbola Oyeyemi,identified the suspect as Hassan Azeez.
Azeez,46, was arrested following a complaint lodged at Ibogun divisional headquarters by the victim’s father, on October 22, 2022.
The victim, a mother of one was rushed to a hospital in Ibadan,the Oyo State capital.
“Upon the report, the DPO Ibogun division, CSP Samuel Oladele quickly mobilized his men and moved to the scene. But before getting there, the suspect has escaped. Since then, the police operatives have been on his trail until 22nd of January when he was eventually apprehende.
“On interrogation,the suspect who claimed to have ran away to Benin Republic confessed to the commission of the crime but blamed it on the devil.
“According to him,he asked the victim to prepare food for him, but instead of the victim to prepare his food, she was busy washing clothes,”Abimbola quoted the suspect as saying in the course of confession
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“He stated further that he got annoyed because he was hungry, and the annoyance made him to pour petrol on her and set her on fire. When asked whose clothes the woman was washing, he confessed that it was his clothes,” the statement added.
Meanwhile,the Commissioner of Police in the state, Lanre Bankole, had directed that the suspect be transferred to the Homicide section of the state Criminal Investigation Department for further investigation and possible prosecution.