What started as a mere rent dispute between a landlord and his Tenant has snowballed into a murder case.
This is even as
the police in Ondo State said they have apprehended a middle-aged man, Samuel
Omojola, for allegedly killing his father’s tenant following a long-standing
rent dispute.
Omojola was said
to have hit the tenant with a plank on his head during a fight between him and
the landlord, at his Oke ijebu residence in Akure, the Ondo state capital.
It was gathered
that the landlord’s son accused the tenant of insulting his father over the
rent issue, which led to an argument between the two and degenerated into a
fight.
The landlord was
said to have called his son who rushed home and hit the deceased with a plank
on the head without knowing the cause of the disagreement between his dad and
the tenant.
It was learnt
that some people mobilised to the house of the landlord immediately after the
death of the victim was announced and attempted to set it ablaze.
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It, however,
took the timely intervention of dispatch homicides detectives from the Ijapo
police station who prevented them from razing down the building.
The Divisional
Police Officer (DPO) at the Ijapo division reportedly drafted a team of
detectives to the scene of the crime where the suspect was arrested while the
nerves of the angry mob were calmed.
Meanwhile, a
police officer said the case has been transferred to the State Criminal
Investigation and Intelligence Department (SCIID) for further investigation.
Confusion As Day-old baby Disappears from Teaching
Hospital in Kano
The command’s
Public Relations Officer, DSP Abdullahi Haruna-Kiyawa, disclosed this in a
statement on Saturday in Kano.
Haruna-Kiyawa
said that one Rabiu Muhammad, residing in Gayawa quarters, Ungogo LGA of Kano,
reported to the police that one of the twins his wife delivered on Sept. 7, at
Muhammad Abdullahi Wase Teaching Hospital Kano, was missing.
According to the
police, on Sept. 8 at about 0130hrs, one of his newly-born male twins was
missing, when his sister in-law, who was looking after the babies at the
corridor of the maternity ward in the hospital, slept off.
“She woke up and
couldn’t see one of the babies,” he said.
Haruna-Kiyawa
said that upon receiving the report,
the Commissioner of Police, CP Sama’ila Shu’aibu-Dikko, instructed a team of
detectives led by SP Daniel Amah, to rescue the victim and arrest the culprits.
“The team
immediately stormed the facility and launched a search operation.
“The hospital
was sealed and thoroughly combed, but the baby could not be found,” he said.
He revealed that
the suspects were arrested following an intelligence report.
“Intelligence
report, led to the arrest of one Maryam Sadiq, 22, and her husband, one
Abubakar Sadiq, 50 years, all of Rijiyar Zaki quarters, Kano.
“The baby was
recovered from them in their home.
“During
preliminary investigations, Maryam confessed to have taken away the baby from
the hospital.
“She said her
husband influenced her into committing the crime, as he been longing for a male
child.”
Haruna-Kiyawa,
further explained that the suspects were said to have organised a party to
celebrate arrival of a male child in their family.
“That triggered
doubts and suspicion, since their neighbours knew that Maryam was not
pregnant,” he said.
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He added that
the new born baby had already been reunited with his parents.
The PPRO said
the CP ordered that the case be transferred to the Criminal Investigation
Department of the command for discreet investigations.
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