A fifty-year-old pastor, Isaac Akinbola and two women, Esther Olowolayemo (29) and Oluwakemi Oshinbajo (30), have been arrested for alleged assault and death of an eight-month-old baby, Obadiah Akinbola.
The pastor was arrested by men of the Ogun State Police Command, along with the two women, after assaulting a woman who is the pastor’s wife, Dasola Akinbola, leading to the death of the baby in the process.
As contained in a release, AZ:5310/OGS/PRO/VOL.7/94/03/04/2022, by the state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, the three suspects were arrested on the 27 March 2022, following a report by the pastor’s wife.
Mrs Akinbola was said to have lodgeda complaint at the Awa Ijebu Divisional Headquarters that she has been having a disagreement with her husband over his alleged illicit affair with some female members of the church for sometime.
She further said that her husband came to her house at Ipinle area of Mamu Ijebu with the two women, whom she suspected to have been having illicit affair with her husband, to beat her up.
“While they were beating her, her eight months old baby, Obadiah Akinbola, fell down, even as her husband was urging the two women to beat her thoroughly.
“Upon the report, the DPO, Awa Ijebu Division, CSP Adewalehinmi Joshua, ordered the arrest of the three suspects, while the woman and her baby were taken to Mamu Ijebu Health Centre for medical care.
“The woman and the baby were later referred to Blessed Hospital, Oru Ijebu where it was discovered that the baby had internal injury which he sustained when he fell down from his mother hands during the scuffle.
“The child gave up the ghost on the 28 March, 2022 while receiving treatment as a result of the internal injury. The remains of the child has been deposited at the General Hospital Ijebu Igbo mortuary for autopsy,” the release added.
DSP Oyeyemi said the state Commissioner of Police, Mr Lanre Bankole, has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspects to the homicide section of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department for further investigation.
This was with the view of arraigning the three of them in court as soon as investigation is concluded, Oyeyemi added in the press release.
