A tenant in the Ibafo area of Ogun State has been arrested for slaying his landlady with a knife.
A tenant simply identified as Abdullahi has been arrested by the Ogun state police command for allegedly killing his landlady, Raliat Olasupo, in the Ibafo area of the state.
It was learnt that Abdullahi slaughtered the 85-year-old landlady with a knife during a tiff over N9,000, said to be an amount the landlady was supposed to pay Abdullahi for a service rendered.
The service as learnt was for the roofing of one of the rooms in the house, which Abdullahi reportedly coordinated and demanded N9,000 from the landlady.
It was gathered that Olasupo, popularly called Iya Ibadan, had accused Abdullahi of being a trouble maker, and had got the police to arrest the tenant and eject him from the house.
However, on Friday, September 4, Abdullahi allegedly sneaked into his landlady’s room at about 8pm, and slaughtered her with a knife.
It was learnt that other tenants and neighbours later found the woman in a pool of blood.
The matter was thereafter reported at the Ibafo Police Division, and Abdullahi was arrested.
When Punch visited Akinpelu Street, where the landlady stayed, it was learnt that Olasupo’s remains had been taken to Ibadan and buried by her family.
A tenant, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Abdullahi, who had been with the landlady for about four years, cut the woman’s neck with a knife and staggered out, behaving like a drunken man.
He said, “On Friday, we were sleeping when there was an alarm at about 10pm. All of us rushed into the landlady’s room, and found her in a pool of blood. There were knife cuts on her neck and other parts of her body. Abdullahi was still around the area."