A 40-year-old man in a rage of anger has run into trouble and now detained by the Nigeria Police for beating a commercial motorcyclist to death in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital.
The suspect, Michael Salako, had accosted the deceased, identified simply as Abudu, in the Lafenwa area of the Gateway State, whom he claimed resided in the same community with him, and challenged him for refusing to carry him the previous day.
Ostensibly recalling the okada rider’s attitude towards him, Michael, in his confessional statement to the police said that, on sighting him at Lafenwa on July 28, 2021, he could not hide his resentment for the rider and demanded for reason(s) why he ignored him the previous day.
If, perhaps, Michael had overlooked that and gone his way, the ugly incident that happened thereafter would not have occurred.
A disagreement ensued between them, leading to a fisticuff, during which the bike rider slumped and died.
An onlooker at the scene subsequently put a distress call across to the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of Lafenwa, under whose jurisdiction the incident happened.
“The DPO, CSP Samuel Aladegoroye, mobilised his men and moved to the scene where the suspect was promptly arrested”, the Ogun State Command Public Relations Officer (PPRO) said in a press release made available to SUNRISE NEWS, adding that the deceased’s corpse had been deposited in the morgue for autopsy.
The state Commissioner of Police, Edward Awolowo Ajogun, has however, ordered that the suspect be transferred to the Homicide Section of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (SCIID), for further investigation and diligent prosecution.