The Ogun
Police Command arrested a 33-year old man, who allegedly stole cassava tubers
and killed the farm owner at Sojulu village via Ibogun in Ifo Local Government
Area of the state.
It was
gathered that the suspect Azeez Kilani murdered the farm owner identified as
David Adima from Benue State, after he caught him on his farmland uprooting one
sack of cassava tuber.
Briefing
newsmen, the Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Iliyasu, who paraded Kilani
alongside other suspects in Monday at the State Headquarters, Eleweran,
Abeokuta, said the cassava thief decided to murder the deceased to cover up his
track having realised he is well known.
The suspect,
however denied the allegation adding that he wrestled with the victim who was
using his cutlass to beat him, and in the process, the cutlass hit the deceased
on the neck and he fainted and died afterwards.
The suspect
said he gave Adima the piece of land upon which he planted the cassava.
“He met me
on his farm uprooting his cassava, but I begged him not to report me to Village
Head (Baale). He was armed with cutlass and he deployed the cutlass to beat me
and I resisted. I dragged the cutlass with him and in the process, the cutlass
hit him on the neck and he fainted. He later died on the farmland. The incident
happened on August 13”, Kilani said.
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