On Sunday, March 1st, 2020, operatives of Ogun Police Command apprehended one Ejike Okata, 27, for allegedly hacking his neighbour, a 50-year-old woman, Adeyiba Oladipupo, to death with a machete. Our reporters learnt that the suspect was nabbed following a report on Friday, February 28th, 2020 at Obalende Police Station in Ijebu Ode by the vitim’s junior brother.

The complainant had informed police that his senior sister, who resided at Ayegbami axis of Ijebu Ode was hacked to death by her neighbour over a minor misunderstanding. The suspect reportedly fled the crime scene immediately after committing the unspeakable act.

However, on Sunday, March 1st, 2020 the police spokesman in the state, Abimbola Oyeyemi, released a statement that stated detectives were mobilized to the crime scene, where the victim’s corpse was recovered and transferred to Ijebu Ode General Hospital mortuary, for autopsy.

Oyeyemi said launched a manhunt for the fleeing suspect and their efforts paid off on Sunday, March 1st, when police operatives arrested him while he was boarding an Ebonyi State-bound commercial bus.

On interrogation, the suspect who hailed from Onueke in Eza South Local Government Area of Ebonyi State confessed to macheting the deceased to death because she accused him of stealing a phone which infuriated him.

He confessed further that he cut off the woman’s two hands because she wanted to struggle for the cutlass with him,

Oyeyemi said in the statement.

However, he added that the Commissioner of Police, Kenneth Ebrimson, had ordered that the suspect be immediately transferred to the homicide division of the state criminal investigation and intelligence department, for further investigation and prosecution.

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