Kwara: Police parade 3 over alleged involvement in culpable homicide

The Kwara State Police Command has paraded six suspects, 5 males and a female, for alleged engagement successful offences bordering connected culpable homicide, transgression conspiracy, disturbance of nationalist bid and mischief.

Commissioner of Police Victor Olaiya, portion speaking with newsmen during the parade of the suspects connected Thursday, said that 3 of the suspects, identified arsenic Peter Samuel, Jeremiah Tiozinda and Sunday Agbenke, were arrested connected Wednesday for allegedly sidesplitting and severing caput of a 34-year-old Rafiu Alao connected Monday, November 4, 2024.

Olaiya, who said that the unfortunate homicide occurred successful the Asunlere assemblage of Oke Oyi, Ilorin, the authorities capital, added that residents of the country reported astatine Oke-Oyi Police Division astatine astir 9 p.m. connected Monday the find of a headless assemblage lying adjacent a watercourse wrong the area.

“Upon receiving this report, detectives were swiftly dispatched to the scene. Photographic grounds was captured, revealing a important people of unit astir the neck, indicating that the caput was severed. The assemblage was subsequently evacuated and deposited astatine the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital morgue, pending an autopsy.

“At the transgression scene, detectives recovered an Itel Android phone, which was suspected to beryllium to 1 of the assailants, arsenic good arsenic a motorcycle believed to beryllium the deceased’s property. Further hunt revealed that the deceased’s telephone was besides recovered connected him,” helium said.

According to the constabulary boss, efforts of detectives to place and apprehend the perpetrators yielded results successful the aboriginal hours of November 6, 2024 arsenic the 3 suspects were apprehended astatine abstracted locations.

The bid said that efforts were connected to retrieve the evidence, adding that the lawsuit has been transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department, SCID, for thorough probe earlier consequent arraignment successful court.

Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police besides paraded Yusuf Abdulkareem, 22, and Jaiyeola Fatai, female, 40, who alongside others present astatine large, allegedly stoned an guiltless husbandman wrongly accused to beryllium the slayer of Alao and severely damaged his car parked wrong constabulary station.