By Abdulrazaq Adebayo Five persons have been arrested and remanded in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, for allegedly assaulting a la...
By Abdulrazaq Adebayo
Five persons have been arrested and remanded in Ilorin, the
Kwara State capital, for allegedly assaulting a lady, Ayomide Afolayan, accused
of infidelity by her boyfriend, Jimoh Abdulfatai.
Her boyfriend, a resident of Shao town, in Moro Local
Government Area of Kwara State, allegedly assisted by his four friends, tied
his girlfriend’s hands and legs and assaulted her.
The four friends, Olamide Babatunde, Afeez Ayomide, Agboola
Abdulsamad, and Yakubu Mustapha, according to the spokesman of the state police
command, Mr Okasanmi Ajayi in Ilorin on Thursday, “confessed to the crime and
the reason adduced for their senseless action, was a mere suspicion of
infidelity on the part of the lady which she vehemently denied.
“In spite of the denial, the boyfriend forcefully retrieved
the lady’s telephone handset and handed over the phone to one of his friends to
start videoing the actions and eventual posting on social media,” he disclosed.
Okasanmi said the police in Shao got wind of the despicable
incident which prompted a swoop on the scene, the suspects rounded up, victim
liberated and taken to the hospital for treatment.
The state Police Commissioner, Tuesday Assayomo, directed
the immediate transfer of the matter to the command’s CID for discreet and
timely investigation.
Okasanmi, said investigation had been done while the
suspects were charged to court and remanded in custody pending a hearing and
actual trial of the matter.
He said it will serve as a deterrent to other people having
such criminal and appalling tendencies in their minds.
The Police Commissioner has also advised parents on the need
to be parents in the real sense of it and monitor their children, know the kind
of friends they keep to avert such ugly incidents.
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