Landlord Kills Tenant’s Son With Pestle In Ogun

Men of Nigerian police, Ogun state command has detained a landlord at Onipanu region, Ota, at Ado Odo/Ota Local Government Area of the state, Sunday Omosule, for supposedly killing the son of one of his renters using a pestle .

The deceased, Joseph Akpan was 4-year-old before his death .

The landlord, according to the police report, supposedly chased his renters with the pestle before he caught up with the victim’s mum .

The state Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said as he caught up with the mother who was carrying the baby, he hit the mother in the hand and hit the baby on the head with the pestle .

Oyeyemi said, “The landlord was arrested following a distress call received by Police at Onipanu Divisional headquarters of the command at Ota .

“The distress call had it that the said landlord went berserk and started using the pestle to chase his tenants, consequent upon which he used the said pestle to hit the mother of the deceased on the hand before using it to hit the victim on the head.”

After receiving the information, Oyeyemi said, the Divisional Police Officer, Onipanu Division, Sangobiyi Johnson, led his men to the scene where the suspect was arrested .

On interrogation, Oyeyemi said, the suspect claimed to be under spiritual attacks which always “make him behave erratically sometimes.”

Oyeyemi, a Deputy Superintendent of Police, said the mother of the deceased who sustained an injury in the attack, has been taken to the hospital where she is responding to treatment .

He said the remains of the victim had been deposited in the mortuary at the State General Hospital, Ota, for an autopsy .

Meanwhile, the state Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Iliyasu, has ordered that the suspect is transferred to Homicide Section of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, Abeokuta, for further investigation .