Don’t kill me, send me to jail, suspected killer of ex-wife’s husband begs
A 43-year-old man, Adebisi Akinrinmola, who
allegedly killed his ex-wife’s husband, Ashimiyu Ademola, last week at Ajebo
village, Ijebu-Igbo area of Ogun State, has begged that he should not be
sentenced to death, saying the devil made him do it.
He disclosed this when Ogun State Police Command
paraded no fewer than 43 suspected kidnappers, murderers and robbers arrested
between January and February this year.
Akinrinmola, a cocoa farmer, who hails from
Ode-Oka in Ondo State, told journalists that he was married to his former wife
for nine years, but that the union produced no child, explaining that he killed
her husband “because he chased me with cutlass when we were quarrelling and I
have to defend myself.”
His words: “When we were quarrelling, he squeezed
my cloth at my neck and I managed to escape from him. He now started chasing me
with a cutlass. I ran inside my house, took a gun and shot him. It is the work
of the devil.
“The government should have mercy on me by not
sentencing me to death, but send me to jail.”
The state Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Iliyasu,
while parading the suspects at the Police Command’s headquarters,
Eleweran-Abeokuta, said the command employed proactive measures to curb the
menace of cultism, kidnapping, robbery and other criminal activities.
Among those paraded was a five-member robbery gang
from Chad and Niger republics, who the Commissioner said confessed to have
robbed a Chief Magistrate, Mrs Sofowora Oriyomi, in Abeokuta and one Pastor
Abatan of the Redeemed Christian Church of God at Idi-Aba area of Abeokuta.
Vanguard
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