Men of the Oyo State Police Command on Wednesday, said they have arrested a 23-year-old final year female student of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso, Abiodun Olabisi, for allegedly stabbing a fresh graduate of the institution, Adegun Lekan, to death.
Olabisi was among suspects who were paraded by the Commissioner of Police in the state, Abiodun Odude, at the state police headquarters, Eleyele, Ibadan, yesterday.
The female student of the Department of Biochemistry was said to have been arrested by police detectives attached to Owode-Ogbomoso.
Odude told newsmen that Lekan had just completed his studies and was awaiting NYSC mobilisation, when he was reportedly stabbed to death by Olabisi.
The police boss revealed that the suspect and the deceased were cohabiting in students’ tradition of “trial marriage” at Phonix area, Stadium road, Ogbomoso, before the ugly incident.
Odude said, “The incident happened at about 8pm on 21/11/2018 following a quarrel arising from petty jealousy. The victim, a graduate of Transport Management, who was stabbed in the chest was later rushed to Bowen University Teaching Hospital, Ogbomoso but died before he could be attended to”.
The police boss, however, added that the kitchen knife Olabisi used in committing the murderous act had been recovered, while the suspect had been arraigned.
In a related development, Odude disclosed that another 300-level student of LAUTECH, Aremu Mayowa has been arrested by the F-SARS of the Oyo State command for allegedly using social media platforms to lure female students of the institution to his residence and mercilessly rape them.
Odude said, “The modus operandi of the suspect was to pose as a friend in WhatsApp groups and other social media platforms, deceiving unsuspecting female victims and luring them to his house after promising to register them in an imaginary dance school.
“The suspect would then prowl on his victims whom he would rape mercilessly under duress, and would threaten to blackmail them in order to discourage them from reporting the crime to the police”.
