Ogun: Father, son kill neighbour’s wife over ‘ponmo’ table
Operatives of the Ogun state police command have arrested a father and his son for allegedly killing their neighbour’s wife.
Disclosing this in a press release issued on Saturday, the command’s public relations officer, Omotola Odutola, said the husband of the deceased made the complaint about the killing to the divisional police officer of Ogijo.
The police, in the press release, said, “successive uncontrollable anger and arguments which snowballed into a quarrel, over sitting on a ‘work table’ belonging to one Tope Owoade ‘f’, now deceased.
“A table the victim uses in selling ‘Ponmo’ stemmed an altercation for preventing her neighbours from sitting on her work table causing a misunderstanding that has led to the ultimate death of one Tope Owoade ‘f’ 43yrs,” it explained.
According to the statement, the police said one Isiaka Owoade, the husband of the late Tope Owoade, narrated to them that his wife had cautioned both of them (father and son) to stop sitting on the work table she uses in selling edible animal skin.
However, “On the 29th of March 2024, when he returned from a journey, his late wife informed him that on the previous day, which was the 28th of March 2024, at about 2030hrs, one Chizoke Obiadada ‘m’ 54 years and his son, one Micheal Obiadada ‘m’ 17 years, his known neighbours hacked his wife in fist blows, beating her up mercilessly, by inflicting fatal injuries on his wife which resulted in her bleeding severely from the womb and in her private part.”
The command’s spokesperson said the husband disclosed that his wife was rushed to Main Frame Private Hospital and Kunle Hospital, Atan Agowa, but she was rejected before she finally died while she was being taken to a government hospital.
The husband also added that efforts were ongoing to deposit the deceased in OOUTH Sagamu morgue for post-mortem examination.
The statement stated that the divisional police officer, on receiving the report, arrested the culprits who are undergoing preliminary investigation, after which the case will be transferred to the state criminal investigation department.
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