A 78-year-old man, Moshood Habibu, has been arrested by Ogun State Police Command for killing his 94-year-old brother by inflicting machete cuts on him in a dispute over family land matter.
Thenewsbearer learnt that the crime was committed on November 24, 2021 at Mowe town in the state.
Confirming the suspect’s arrest, the police image-maker in Ogun, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, said on Saturday, November 27, 2021, that the matter was reported at Mowe Division by one Aminu Tajudeen, the son of the deceased.
Tajudeen had told the police that the suspect came to his father, Salisu Surakatu’s house at Kara Ewumi Village, Mowe, where he inflicted machete cuts on him over a disagreement on land matter.
The PPRO said that the report made the Divisional Police Officer in charge of the Division, CSP Saminu Akintunde, to send detectives to the scene where the suspect was promptly arrested.
“On interrogation, the suspect claimed that the deceased sold a plot from their family land and didn’t give him his own share of the proceed, and that he went there that morning to demand for his own share which led to a hot argument between them.
“Preliminary investigation revealed that the suspect went to the deceased house armed with a cutlass, and when he got there, the deceased, who was visually impaired, didn’t know he came with a cutlass,” Oyeyemi explained.
While the deceased was asking him to leave his house, the suspect reportedly descended on him and started inflicting him with machete cuts, causing his death.
The state Commissioner of Police, Lanre Bankole, has 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.
