A 25-year-old man, identified as Wale Ede, has been detained by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Ekiti State Police Command for allegedly beheading one Joshua Olaseinde Fagbola, 50.
Fagbola, a father of seven and a patrol assistant with the Directorate of Road Traffic Service (a.ka. VIO), in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State, was killed in an incident which occurred at about 8pm at Iro quarters in Iyin-Ekiti in Irepodun/ Ifelodun local government area of the state.
Ede, it was learnt, attacked the victim on the evening of Friday, March 20, when the deceased was about to start the engine of his motorcycle after the conclusion of the wake-keep of one of his relatives.
He was said to have brought out a cuttlass from the umbrella he was holding and cut down Fagbola, first from his neck and then his face and other parts of his body.
The victim who was in the pool of his own blood eventually gave up the ghost in the arms of his wife in an undisclosed hospital in the community.
The Ekiti State Command Police Public Relations Officer, (PPRO), DSP Alberto Adeyemi, who confirmed the incident, said that the suspect was being held at the CID, Police headquarters, in Ado-Ekiti.
“It has been reported that Wale Ede allegedly beheaded Mr Fagbola on March 20. It was reported that the deceased had on Thursday, March 19, seized the suspect’s cell phone for failing to provide the blocks he had paid him for.
“The suspect and the deceased then met at a wake keep event on March 20 where the suspect allegedly cut the deceased to death with a sharp cutlass. We are still investigating the matter,” Adeyemi said. (Leadership)
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