A middle-aged woman, Mrs Bisola Olukoya, has
been arrested by the men of Ogun State Police
Command, for allegedly beating her 16-year-old
son, Toheeb Olukoya, to death, with a plank.
She was said to be a resident of No. 40 Ifelodun
Street, Onifade- Itele, in Ado Odo/Ota Local
Government Area of the state.
The state Police Public Relations Officer,
Abimbola Oyeyemi, said the incident happened
on Friday 17th of March 2017, in their Itele
residence, when the suspect while beating the
son used plank to hit him on the head, the boy
fell down and gave up the ghost.
He said the suspect having realised what she
has done hurriedly buried the deceased in
connivance with her husband and ran away from
the house.
Oyeyemi, an Assistant Superintendent of Police,
said immediately the information got to the
police, the Divisional Police Officer, Itele Division,
Lukmon Adejumo, led the detectives to
investigate the matter and the suspect was later
traced and arrested at Iyana Ipaja in Lagos.
Meanwhile, the state Commissioner of Police,
Ahmed Iliyasu, has commended the men of the
Itele Division for arresting the suspect and
ordered the immediate transfer of the suspect to
homicide section of the State Criminal
Investigation and Intelligence Department.
He equally appealed to general public to always
control their temperament especially when
correcting their children/wards.