Police Arrest Monarch, Others Over Woman’s Alleged Murder in Nigeria

The deceased

Bashiru Ibrahim, with gun injury

Residents of Ojo area of Lagos are living in anxiety following the gruesome murder of 24-year-old housewife, Faith Elo Ibrahim, and subsequent arrest of the traditional ruler of Mebamu Kingdom, Chief Mosiu Adio Hassan, and four others over the alleged murder of a woman.

LEADERSHIP Weekend gathered that the suspects were nabbed by the officers of the Lagos police command at Okokomaiko Division in Lagos State.

It was gathered that the murdered lady was allegedly shot alongside her husband, Bashiru Ibrahim, while they were returning from the market by the security aides of the Baale.

The woman was said to have died a few days after from the gunshot wounds, while her husband survived the attack.

To conceal the heinous act that took place at Mechanic Bus Stop near the Baale’s palace in Mebamu area in Ojo Local Government Area of Lagos, the woman was secretly buried in the area without her husband’s knowledge.

It was alleged that Ibrahim was still in a hospital recovering from the gun shot wounds, when the suspects allegedly buried his wife.

Narrating his ordeals to journalists, Ibrahim said he went to the market to buy some food items with his late wife on the fateful day and was attacked when returning home.

He said they were accosted by some men with cutlass and guns close to his house and the Baale’s palace.He said they asked him where they were going or coming from that evening.

Ibrahim said while he was still explaining,  one of them hit his back with a cutlass, while another he identified as Wale pointed the gun he was carrying at him and shot him and his wife and fled.

He said he was shot at his waist while his wife was badly injured both in her waist and other parts of her body and she later died because of the injuries.

Ibrahim said they were left at the scene and neighbours who knew them and saw what happened rushed them to a private hospital, Ademola Medical Centre at Ijanikin area,  where his wife eventually died two days after.

He alleged that while he was still in pains at the hospital, the Baale conspired with other people to bury his wife secretly without informing him.

He said since the incident happened, their only daughter, Opeyemi, had kept asking him about her mother.

Ibrahim said those behind the death of his wife must be brought to justice.

When newsmen contacted Baale Hassan, he confirmed the incident and said it was the security men that shot the victims and he only intervened to settle the matter peacefully.

He said he settled with the family of the deceased before she was buried and declined to comment on the allegations that he  illegally owned weapons and his thugs harassed residents of the area. A visit to the Okoko Police Division, the DPO, Richard Temple, who confirmed the arrest, said the matter had been transfered to SARS

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