Toheeb Popoola, Ibrahim Ridwan, Mutiu Tijani, Akeem Ishola and Lawal Afeez have all been arrested by men of the ogun state police command for the death of one Monsur Kareem.
The suspects, according to a press release by the police public relations officer, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi were arrested following a report by the deceased father, one Najeem Kareem who reported at sango police station that his son was beaten to coma by the suspects following a minor misunderstanding he had with Toheeb popoola.
Upon his report, the DPO Sango division CSP Godwin Idehai led his detectives to the scene at ijoko area where the five suspects were apprehended.
Oyeyemi said that preliminary investigation revealed that while a landlord in the area was coming in his tricycle loaded with kegs of water, he fell down with the kegs of water and while picking those kegs, Toheeb popoola whose house was situated in the place came out to question him for his reason of staying there. This led to argument between them and it was at that point the deceased met them and tried to intervene.
His intervention did not go down well with Toheeb who invited the other four suspects to the scene and ordered them to beat both the deceased and the tricycle man up. He was rushed to the hospital but was confirmed dead by the doctor.
The corpse of the deceased has been deposited at Ifo general hospital mortuary for autopsy.
The commissioner of police CP Kenneth Ebrimson has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspects to homicide section of the state criminal investigation and intelligence department for discreet investigation and diligent prosecution.
