The Police in Ogun has arrested\u00a046-year-old Hassan Azeez, who went into hiding after setting his wife ablaze for delaying in preparing his food.<\/p>\n
The incident occurred on October 22, 2022, in the Ibogun area of Ogun State.<\/span><\/p>\n The suspect was traced to the Benin Republic where he was apprehended on January 22, 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n During interrogation he blamed his indulgence on the handiwork of Satan, adding that it was orchestrated by anger.<\/span><\/p>\n He stated that he returned home that fateful day hungry and directed his wife, Olayinka Hassan, to prepare food for him.<\/span><\/p>\n Rather than do his bidding, he said she continued washing his dirty clothes.<\/span><\/p>\n According to him,\u201d I was angry and poured petrol on her. I didn\u2019t know it would get to that extent. Satan pushed me to do it through anger. I am very sorry\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n A spokesman for the Ogun State Police Command, SP Abimbola Oyeyemi who confirmed the arrest, said, the incident was reported at the Ibogun divisional headquarters by the victim\u2019s father.<\/span><\/p>\n He added that the victim was rushed to a hospital in Ibadan, Oyo State where she has been undergoing treatment.<\/span><\/p>\n According to Oyeyemi,\u00a0 \u201d The DPO Ibogun division, CSP Samuel Oladele quickly mobilized his men and moved to the scene. But before getting there, the suspect had escaped.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cSince then,\u00a0 operatives have been on his trail until\u00a0 January 22, 2023, when he was eventually apprehended.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWhen asked whose clothes the woman was washing, he confessed that it was his clothes.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cMeanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, CP Lanre Bankole, has directed that the suspect be transferred to the Homicide section of the State Criminal Investigation Departments for further investigation and possible prosecution<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Police in Ogun has arrested\u00a046-year-old Hassan Azeez, who went into hiding after setting his wife ablaze for delaying in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions\/302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}