Officers of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested a man for beheading an 84-year-old man.
The who was beheaded was identified as Elder Alfred Opadipe.
The incident took place at Ipara community, Remo North Local Government Area of Ogun State on Friday, July 21.
Confirming the incident to newsmen, the spokesperson of the state police command, Omotola Odutola, said following a call received from an unnamed informant, police officers led by the Isara Divisional Police Officer (DPO), CSP Bankole Eluyeru, stormed the scene of the incident. She said an attempt to arrest the suspect was fiercely resisted as he used “the matchete on the DPO and his men.”
Odutola added that the team succeeded “in neutralizing the suspect and weapon recovered from him.”
She however mentioned that there is “no recount of the suspect being a madman from the intelligence the police gathered
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