The Osun State Police Command has arrested a 30-year-old man, Gideon
Segun for allegedly killing his ex-wife’s 82-year-old grandfather,
Kayode Adejuwon, at Omi-Osun Street, Iperindo community on March 29th.
The
state Police Commissioner, Olafimihan Adeoye, who confirmed the
incident said the son of the deceased, Mr Adegoke Adejuwon reported to
the police that his father was found
bleeding inside his room, and died few hours after.
The suspect was
arrested by a combined
team of policemen and vigilance group members, after he was rescued from
irate mob who threatened to kill him.
Police investigation revealed that one Segun hit the deceased’s head with
firewood during a disagreement. Speaking to Nigerian Tribune, the suspect, while speaking with Metro, said:
“I am from Makun Omi in
Ijebu Waterside, Ogun State, but I live in Iperindo where I met a lady
and we became lovers. We did introduction and she had two children for
me.
“Later, she left Iperindo for Ilesa in the guise of completing her
vocation learning. Whenever I asked her to come home, she would give one
excuse or the other, unknown to me that she was having affairs with
men. Whenever she was in Iperindo, she would rent a room for her herself
and would not join me where I was.
“On a fateful day, I caught her with a man. When this happened and I
was angry, my father-in-law started hitting me with a stick. This led to
a divorce suit at a customary court at Ifewara. On the day of the
hearing, I was told the date had been changed, unknown to me that it was
a plan to make me absent.
“The judgment was given on the ground that I refused to answer the
court. Since then, my wife’s family had been intimidating me, using the
Agbekoya and other groups. They threatened to show me that I was a
stranger in their midst.
“On March 29, which was a market day in the town, I was coming from
farm when my grandfather-in-law peeped out of window and said the person
passing by, referring to me, should come.
“As I moved near the window, he saw me and asked me what I was doing
in the vicinity. I said I was walking on the road towards my house. He
held my shirt from inside where he stood by the window, while I was
outside.
“As I tried to extricate myself from his grip, the piece of wood I
was holding mistakenly hit him on the head. Baba fell and hit his head
against a table in the room where he stood. This made him to bleed. Baba
was the one who told people that I hit him with a stick before he died.”
The suspect would be charged to court at the completion of investigation.
Source: Nigerian Tribune
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