Father, son arrested for killing neighbour’s wife over ‘ponmo’ table

Father, son arrested for killing neighbour’s wife over ‘ponmo’ table

By: Ade Phillips

The Ogun State Police Command apprehended a father and his son on suspicion of murdering their neighbor’s wife.

According to a press statement released on Saturday by the command’s spokesperson, Omotola Odutola, the deceased’s husband reported the incident to the Ogijo divisional police officer.

The police, in the press release, said, “successive uncontrollable anger and arguments which snowballed into a quarrel, over sitting on a ‘work table’ belonging to one Tope Owoade ‘f’, now deceased.

“A table the victim uses in selling ‘Ponmo’ stemmed an altercation for preventing her neighbours from sitting on her work table causing a misunderstanding that has led to the ultimate death of one Tope Owoade ‘f’ 43yrs,” it explained.

According to the statement, the police said one Isiaka Owoade, the husband of the late Tope Owoade, narrated to them that his wife had cautioned both of them (father and son) to stop sitting on the work table she uses in selling edible animal skin.

However, “On the 29th of March 2024, when he returned from a journey, his late wife informed him that on the previous day, which was the 28th of March 2024, at about 2030hrs, one Chizoke Obiadada ‘m’ 54 years and his son, one Micheal Obiadada ‘m’ 17 years, his known neighbours hacked his wife in fist blows, beating her up mercilessly, by inflicting fatal injuries on his wife which resulted in her bleeding severely from the womb and in her private part.”

The spokesperson for the command mentioned that the husband revealed his wife was initially taken to Main Frame Private Hospital and Kunle Hospital, Atan Agowa, where she was turned away before succumbing on the way to a government hospital.

The husband further stated that arrangements were being made to have the deceased transferred to OOUTH Sagamu morgue for a post-mortem examination.

Upon receiving the report, the divisional police officer apprehended the suspects, who are currently undergoing preliminary investigation.

The case will be transferred to the state criminal investigation department for further handling.