Hassan and wife
After over three-months intensive manhunt, the police have finally arrested 46 year-old Hassan Azeez who allegedly poured petrol on his wife and set her ablaze.
According to SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) of
Ogun State, the suspect was reported at Ibogun Police Divisional Headquarters by the victim’s father on 22nd of October 2022, that her daughter, Olayinka Hassan was set ablazed by her husband over a minor disagreement, and that the victim, a mother of one, has been rushed to an hospital in Ibadan.
SP Abimbola said on receiving the report, the DPO Ibogun Division, CSP Samuel Oladele quickly mobilized his men and moved to the scene but before getting there, the suspect had fled.
Since then, the police have been on his trail until 22nd of January when he was eventually apprehended .
On interrogation, the suspect who claimed to have ran away to Benin Republic confessed to the commission of the crime but blamed it on the devil.
According to him, he asked the victim to prepare food for him, but instead of the victim to prepare his food, she was busy washing clothes.
He stated further that he got annoyed because he was hungry and the annoyance made him to pour petrol on her and set her on fire.
When asked whose clothes the woman was washing, he confessed that it was his clothes.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, CP Lanre Bankole, has directed that the suspect be transferred to Homicide section of the state Criminal Investigation Departments for further investigation and possible prosecution.
