A man suspected has beheaded an 84-year-old man identified as Elder Alfred Opadipe, in Ipara community, Remo North Local Government Area of Ogun State on Friday, July 21.
Confirming the incident to newsmen, the spokesperson of the state police command, Omotola Odutola, said the police received a distress call from an unnamed informant about a man on rampage with a machete.
She said police officers led by the Isara Divisional Police Officer (DPO), CSP Bankole Eluyeru, stormed the scene of the incident.
She said an attempt to arrest the suspect was fiercely resisted as he used “the machete on the Divisional Police Officer and his men.”
Odutola added that the team succeeded “in neutralizing the suspect and weapon recovered from him.”
She however mentioned that there is “no recount (information) of the suspect being a madman from the intelligence the police gathered”.
