A landlady, Bola Abiodun, and her husband simply identified as Sunday, are currently on the run after allegedly disposing the lifeless body of their tenant in a canal.
The Ogun State Police Command
has launched a manhunt for the suspects who fled their Temidire community home
in the Ifo Local Government Area of the State
It was gathered that the
deceased simply identified as Iya Ibukun, was knocked down by a hit and run driver
on May 5, 2024. After suffering various degrees of injury from the accident,
the deceased had turned to self-medication out of concern that she would not be
able to pay for her medical bills.
After turning to
self-medication, her health deteriorated and she passed away in her rented
apartment.
The corpse was allegedly taken
from the room and disposed of in a nearby canal by the landlady and her
husband.
The chairman of the Community
Development Association, Mosuru Akindele, was reportedly called by the
residents who had suspicions about the alleged occurrence, and the youth
leader, Olabode Kazeem, was also contacted following the incident.
“There was an accident; a
hit-and-run driver allegedly knocked the tenant down. She didn’t go to the
hospital and started treating herself at home. She died a few days after the
incident. The landlady and her husband conspired to dump the body in a
canal,” a police source was quoted as
saying
Confirming the incident, the
spokesperson of the police command, SP Omolola Odutola, said the police were
working to recover the body from the canal.
“Our men went to the house and
discovered a two-year-old boy in a welfare facility. Meanwhile, our men combed
the entire canal in search of the body, but we haven’t found anything,” she
said
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