A 40-year-old man, Michael Salako, has been arrested by men of the Ogun State police command for allegedly beating an operator of a commercial motorcycle popularly known as Okada, to death at Lafenwa area of Abeokuta.
The spokesperson of the command, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, in a statement said the suspect was arrested following a distress call received by the DPO Lafenwa divisional headquarters, at about 12 noon, that an Okada rider had been beaten to death at Sanni Street, Lafenwa Abeokuta.
“Upon the distress call, the DPO CSP Samuel Aladegoroye, mobilized his men and moved to the scene where the suspect was promptly arrested.
On interrogation, the suspect, who claimed to have known the deceased in their community informed the police that he asked the deceased to take him somewhere with his motorcycle the previous day and the deceased refused.
He stated further that when he saw him on that fateful day, he was trying to question him for his reasons for refusing to take him out the previous day and that led to a fight between them. While the fighting was going on, the deceased collapsed and gave up the ghost,” the statement reads.
Abimbola said the corpse of the victim simply identified as Abudu has been deposited in the morgue for autopsy.
