Husband, wife buries child secretly
A 30-year-old housewife and resident of Oshodi Oke area of Ogijo, Shukurat Olufowobi has been arrested operatives of Ogun State Police Command for allegedly beating his 5-year-old stepson, Azeem Olufowobi to death.
The suspect was arrested at about 12:30pm yesterday following an information received from members of the public who informed police at Ogijo division that the deceased boy was beaten with an object on his head, which gave him a skull injury that eventually resulted to the death of the victim.
According to Ogun State police spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi, a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), information further revealed that the woman and her husband hurriedly took the body of the victim to Ajah in Lagos State where he was secretly buried.
“Upon the information, the DPO Ogijo division CSP Suleman Baba Muhammed quickly mobilized his detectives to the scene where the couple who have started packing their belongings away from the area were promptly arrested.
“Preliminary investigation revealed that the woman has been maltreating the victim whose mother has separated from the father due to unreconcileable differences. On the fateful day, the boy was beaten on the head with a heavy object, which caused him a broken skull resulting to his eventual death. The nurse who gave the victim first aid treatment and informed the couple of her observation was pleaded with by the woman and her friend to lie about the cause of the victim death but she refused because it is against the ethics of her profession.
“The couple Ayuba Olufowobi and Shukurat Olufowobi are currently undergoing interrogation at ogijo divisional headquarters and they were helping the police in their investigation.
“Meanwhile, the commissioner of police CP Kenneth Ebrimson has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspects to the homicide section of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department for further investigation and prosecution”.