A senior secondary school student of Akoko Anglican Grammar School, Arigidi-Akoko, Akoko North West Local Council Area of Ondo State, Habib Salau, has been stabbed to death.
Habib was stabbed on Wednesday by another female student of the school, Sandra, when they engaged in a scuffle shortly after closing hours outside the school premises.
One of the sources who craved anonymity stated that upon her arrest, Sandra confessed that the knife she used to stab Salau was gotten through a student of Ajiroke Technical School.
Meanwhile, the deceased body had been deposited at the mortuary of the State Specialist Hospital, Ikare-Akoko.
The Commissioner for Police in the state, Abayomi Oladipo, confirmed that the case has been transferred to the Criminal Investigation Department, adding that a diligence investigation would be conducted.
Meanwhile, police operatives in the state have arrested a 34-year-old man, Monday Chukwu, who was alleged to have stabbed his friend, Kefa Ofando, to death over N2,000 debt.
Chukwu and Ofando, who were both labourers, were engaged in a fight after arguing, after which the latter was stabbed in the neck with a pair of scissors.
The incident took place at Akintola village in the Odigbo Local Council Area of the state. The 30-year-old deceased was said to have given up the ghost before getting to the hospital, having lost much blood from the bleeding.
Speaking on the arrest of the suspect, during the parade of Chukwu and other suspected criminals, the State Commissioner of Police said, “On the 20th of September, 2024, operatives of the Ondo State Police Command attached to the Odigbo Divisional Police Headquarters, acting on a complaint, swiftly responded and arrested one Monday Chukwu, a 34-year-old resident of Akintola village in the Odigbo area of the state.
The police boss also disclosed that his men have arrested a fleeing suspect in connection with the killing of a popular caterer in Akure, Ondo State capital, Mrs. Iyabode Adene.
Abayomi said the 16-year-old secondary school student, Precious Kolawole, who had been on the run, was arrested some few weeks after his accomplice, Precious Kolawole, had been arrested.
The Ondo Police Commissioner said, “It would be recalled that painstaking investigations had earlier led to the arrest of his accomplice, one Philip Emmanuel, aged 17 years, who in a voluntary statement expressed their individual degrees of involvement in the dastardly act.”
