Policemen in Ogun State have arrested four suspects in connection with the murder of a couple in Shagamu area of the State.
The couple, James Olaosebikan, 72 and Esther Olaosebikan, 68, was gruesomely murdered by unknown assailants on the June 30, 2019 in their house situated at Km 54 Lagos-Ibadan expressway, Shagamu.
The assailants according to the couple’s son, Joseph, who reported at Shagamu police station, the assailants accessed the house through the ceiling and inflicted machete cuts on his parents to death.
Upon the report, the Commissioner of Police Bashir Makama gave a matching order to the DPO Shagamu Division, Okiki Agunbiade, a superintendent of police, to fish out the killers within the shortest possible time.
In compliance with the directive, the DPO and his men embarked on technical and forensic investigation of the case and their efforts yielded positive result on July 12, 2019, when three members of the gang namely: Ibrahim Uthman, Aba Abdulkareem and Abdulhamid Ibrahim were apprehended.
On interrogation, they confessed being members of a robbery gang and that one of their members who is now at large invited them for the purpose of robbing the deceased as well as a nearby shop. But on getting to the house, they discovered that the couple recognised one of them, hence they killed them.
Meanwhile, Mr. Makama has ordered the homicide section of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department to take over the case for proper investigation. He also directed that the fleeing member of the gang must be brought to book within the shortest possible time.