A hemp seller, identified as Toba, has allegedly murdered his girlfriend, Tunrayo Odubanjo, and dumped her corpse in a bush in Kara-Kekere community, Ogunrun, Mowe, in the Obafemi Owode area of Ogun State.
Toba allegedly slit Odubanjo’s throat before dumping the corpse in the bush.
He had sent her to buy alcoholic drink on Wednesday, on going to the errand, she used his slippers and when she returned, he attacked her for wearing his slippers.
A neighbour of the couple, who gave her name simply as Peju, said “He told her to pack out of his house, but she kept begging him and when she decided to leave the house, she could not see her slippers. She asked him for the slippers and Toba said he threw them into the bush. She pleaded with him to help her retrieve them from the bush, but he refused.
“I tried to intervene, but he threatened to use broken tiles on me. So, I withdrew and continued with what I was doing. The girl later asked me for slippers, but I told her I had none. Suddenly, he pursued the girl again, dragged her into the bush and started beating her.
“I heard the girl begging and thought it was just beating. After a few minutes, I suddenly saw him sitting on the lady. I quickly called people at the site and the son of a chief in our community and they rushed down to apprehend him as he abandoned her corpse in the bush and wanted to run. Toba used broken tiles to slit his girlfriend’s throat.”
The state Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said the command would release a statement on the incident on Thursday.
“I can’t give a reaction now; I want to see the person myself to know what actually happened,” he added.
