The Lagos State Police Command has arrested Samuel Adeniyi, who is accused of killing his girlfriend with a sledgehammer to the head in an undisclosed area of Lagos.
Idowu Owohunwa, the state Commissioner of Police, made the announcement during a press conference at the Police Officers Mess in Ikeja on Thursday, August 31, 2023.
According to Owohunwa, the suspect justified killing the yet-to-be-identified lover because he was concerned that she would leave him for another person.
The police commissioner, while parading suspects in Lagos said, “One Samuel Adeniyi got consumed by emotions and smashed the head of his girlfriend, and killed her. He (Adeniyi) said he suspected that the girl may leave him and perhaps for just that reason, he killed her and ran away. We have succeeded in arresting him and recovering the sledgehammer that he used and we will bring him to justice.”
Parading other suspected criminals in Lagos, the CP disclosed that within one month of launching Operation Flush, the police had recorded successes by raiding criminal hideouts and arresting suspected cultists and armed traffic robbers, among others.
