The police in Ogun have arrested an apprentice trader, Okwudili Okoro, for allegedly hacking his elder brother, Azubuike Okoro, and his wife, Jacinta Okoro, to death with a machete.
The suspect was arrested following a report by one Joseph Nwagu at the Sango Police Division that Okwudili, in collaboration with one Kenneth, said to have come all the way from Sapon, Abeokuta, had killed the couple.
Upon the report, the Divisional Police Officer in charge of the Sango Division, Superintendent Nasirudeen Oyedele, led detectives to the scene, where the suspect was arrested, but his accomplice escaped.
On interrogation, the Ebonyi State-born suspect claimed to have served his elder brother for three years, but when it was time for him to be given his freedom and settled, his brother reneged.
He further stated that when he realised that his brother was not ready to “settle” him, he contracted one Kenneth, now on the run, and they both bought two machetes, sharpened them and headed to his deceased elder brother’s house in Ijako.
On getting there, they met the deceased eating with his wife and before he could utter any word, they descended on the couple with the weapons and hacked them to death.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Abimbola Oyeyemi, said that the corpses of the couple had been taken to the mortuary of the General Hospital in Otta for post-mortem examination.
Meanwhile, the state Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Iliyasu, has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspect to the Homicide Section of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department for discreet investigation.
He equally directed that the fleeing accomplice of the suspect be apprehended and brought to book within the shortest possible time.
The police boss, however, appealed to residents of the state not to take any threat to their lives lightly by reporting such to the police, no matter who is involved.
