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Landlord Kill Tenant’s Son With Pestle In Ogun State

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Ogun State Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Iliyasu

Landlord Attacks Tenants, Kills Her Son

Sunday Omosule, a landlord in Onipanu, Ota, in the Ado Odo/Ota Local Government Area of Ogun State, has been arrested by the Police Command in the state for allegedly killing a tenant’s son with a pestle.

The tenant son, Joseph Akpan, that was allegedly murdered by the landlord is reported to be four years old.

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Report has it that the landlord had allegedly chased his tenants with pestle until he caught up with the victim’s mother.

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

He said, “The landlord was arrested following a distress call to the police at Onipanu division.

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

On interrogation, he said the suspect claimed to be under spiritual attacks.

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

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“The remains of the victim have been deposited in a mortuary.