Landlord smashes tenant’s 4-year-old son’s head with pestle in Ogun
A landlord, Sunday Omosule, has been arrested by the Ogun State Police Command in the Onipanu area of Ota for allegedly killing his tenant’s four-year-old son with a pestle.
The landlord allegedly chased his tenants with a pestle until he caught up with the victims mother, killing the child, Joseph Akpan in the process.
The state police spokesperson, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said as Omosule caught up with the mother who was carrying the baby, he hit the mother in the hand and hit the baby on the head with the pestle.
Oyeyemi said, “The landlord was arrested following a distress call received by Police at Onipanu Divisional headquarters of the command at Ota.
“The distress call had it that the said landlord went berserk and started using pestle to chase his tenants, consequent upon which he used the said pestle to hit the mother of the deceased on the hand before using it to hit the victim on the head.”
Oyeyemi said the suspect claimed to be under spiritual attacks which always “make him to behave erratically sometimes.”
The spokesperson said the mother of the deceased, who also sustained injury in the attack, has been taken to the hospital where she is responding to treatment.
He said the remains of the victim had been deposited in the mortuary at the State General Hospital, Ota, for autopsy.
The suspect has been transferred to Homicide Section of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, Abeokuta, for further investigation.
