Man who beheads friend arrested

From Fisayo Akinduro, Osogbo

The Osun State Police Command has arrested a middle-age man, Idowu Adejare for allegedly beheading his friend.

The suspect who was paraded by the State Commissioner of Police, Babatunde Kokumo, was said to have committed the offence between February 25 and 26, 2020.

According to the Police boss, the suspect had a misunderstanding with the deceased, James Yankume, 35, on February 25 and went to attack him the following day.

“The next day, February 26, around 6:00am, the said suspect went to the deceased’s house with cutlass and dane gun.

“He chased the deceased and his wife out of the house and eventually inflicted several machete cuts on his body, beheaded and dumped the head inside the forest.”

Kokumo said it took dedicated efforts of Anti-Homicide detectives to recover the decomposing head few days after the incident.

He assured that the suspect will soon be charged to court after investigations are completed.

When The Hope spoke with the suspect, he said the deceased attacked him with a cutlass but was fortunate, he was not injured.

“He (deceased) has been after my life for a long time but was not successful. He hit me with a cutlass on my neck but it had no effect and I hit him back on the same spot and his head came off”

The Police also paraded a 29-year-old-man, Adeleye Olusesan for allegedly raping his three-year-old step daughter in Ifetedo, Osun.

Also, a robbery suspect, Juwon Babalola who was alleged to have broken into four houses and stolen property worth N400,000 in Ila-Orangun, Osun, in company with two others at large, was also arrested.

Kokumo said that another set of armed robbery suspects, Odunayo Babatunde and Tosin Akinola in military outfits, operating around Ile-Ife axis, were also arrested by the police for offences of armed robbery, impersonation and obtaining money by false pretence.

The CP said that the set of suspects arrested in military uniform, specialised in attacking Point of Sales (POS) terminal operators, with false pretence of making withdrawal on their POS machines with their ATM card.

He said that when their card malfunctioned, they would still force the operators to pay the money by threatening them with sword and jackknife.