The Police in Ogun State have arrested a 40-year-old man,
Femi Adebowale, for beating his 37-year-old wife Kuburat to death.
The incident happened in their residence in Agbado area of
the state on Monday.
The state’s Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola
Oyeyemi, in a statement yesterday said that on the day of the incident, the
deceased had asked her husband for the money she would spend on her younger
brother’s naming ceremony.
The PPRO said Femi gave his wife N10,000 but that the
deceased insisted that the money was not enough, which led to a fight that
resulted in her death.
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According to Oyeyemi, the suspect was arrested following a
complaint from the deceased ’s younger brother, Shakiru Alao, who reported at
Agbado Division that his elder sister had been beaten to death by the husband
over allegation of adultery.
Oyeyemi added, “In the suspect’s statement, he alleged that
the deceased had been involving in act of infidelity for quite some time to the
extent that she was dating their next door neighbour.”
The state Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Iliyasu has,
however, ordered the transfer of the matter to the homicide section of the
State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department for further
investigation and possible prosecution of the suspect.
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