Officers from the Ogun State Police Command have nabbed a 35-year-old man, identified as Habeeb Kasali, for allegedly murdering his wife’s suspected lover, Bamidele Johnson.

Reports told Flavision that Kasali used a pair of scissors to stab the victim multiple times in his chest, eye and neck, which eventually led to his demise.

The Ogun State Police Command’s Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, made the revelation in a statement on Sunday, March 22nd, 2020.

Oyeyemi said the Kasali murdered the victim based on suspicion that he was in a romantic relationship with his wife.

The PPRO said the suspect was nabbed, after a relative of the deceased complained at the Igbesa Police Divisional Headquarters.

The PPRO stated,

The complainant informed the police that a fight ensued between the suspect and the deceased at the Totowu area, when the suspect confronted the deceased with the accusation of having an affair with his wife despite several warnings from him.

In the process, the suspect used a pair of scissors to stab the deceased several times in his chest, eye and neck as a result of which the deceased lost consciousness.

He was immediately rushed to the Crest Hospital on Isuti Road, Egan, Lagos State, where he was confirmed to have been brought in dead by a doctor.

Having realised that the victim had died, the suspect took to his heels, but the DPO, Igbesa Divisional Headquarters, SP Abayomi Adeniji, quickly dispatched his detectives to go after him and he was eventually arrested from where he ran to.

The corpse of the deceased has been recovered and deposited in the Ota General Hospital mortuary for autopsy.

Oyeyemi added that the Ogun State Commissioner of Police, Kenneth Ebrimson, had ordered the immediate transfer of the suspect to the Homicide Section of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, for further investigation and subsequent prosecution.

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