The Police
in Ogun State have arrested one Mutiu Sonola for allegedly beating his wife,
Zainab shotayo to death.
Mutiu, 37,
started beating his wife in the morning on Christmas Day, over minor
disagreement.
He was said
to have persisted in hitting her despite being told by neighbours to desist
from further assaulting his wife, until the 34-year-old woman slumped and
slipped into coma.
He,
allegedly, fled home quickly when it dawned on him that his wife was not likely
to survive the beating.
It was
learnt that neighbours notified the father of the woman, who rushed to the scene
and took his daughter to the State Hospital, Ijaiye, Abeokuta, for treatment
but doctors confirmed she was brought in dead.
The Police
Public Relations Officer in Ogun State, Abimbola Oyeyemi, in a release stated
that the suspect was arrested by detectives from Ibara Division of the Ogun
state Police Command.
Oyeyemi
stated further that investigation had revealed that Mutiu habitually beat his
wife at any slightest provocation and that the latest assault leading to the
woman’s death was triggered by a “minor disagreement.”
The remains
of the woman had been deposited at the morgue of the State Hospital, Ijaiye for
autopsy, while her husband would be transferred to the homicide section of the
state criminal investigation and intelligence department for further
investigation and prosecution.