Okwudili Okoro a murderer, who hacked his older brother, Azuibike Okoro, and Sister in law, Jacinta Okoro respectively has been arrested by Ogun state police.
Joseph Nwagu a resident reported the case to the Sango Division of the command, stating that Azuibike and his wife had been hacked to death by the suspect and one Kenneth who came all the way from Sapon in Abeokuta to commit the horrific act.
The Sango Divisional Police Officer, Nasirudeen Oyedele, led detectives to the scene where the suspect was arrested but his accomplice slipped away.
Abimbola Oyeyemi, the state Police Public Relations Officer, during the interrogation, stated the suspect claimed to have served his deceased brother for three years in his cosmetics trade, and when it was time for him to be settled, his brother was not forthcoming.
That was when the suspect hired his accomplice, Kenneth, who is now on the run.
He told the police that they had sharpened two cutlasses, which they bought before heading to his brother’s house in Ijako area of the state.
The suspect further told his interrogators that on getting to the deceased’s houses, they found him at dinner with his wife before he could utter a word, they attacked with the cutlasses and hacked them to death.
Oyeyemi said the two corpses had been deposited in the mortuary at the state General Hospital, Ota for post-mortem examination.
Meanwhile, the state Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Iliyasu, has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspect to homicide section of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, Abeokuta, for investigation.
He equally directed that the escaped accomplice of the suspect be hunted for and brought to book within the shortest possible time.
Iliyasu 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.
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