How Doctor Hacked His Own Mother To Death

The Ogun State Police Command has arrested a medical doctor, Emmanuel Ogah, for allegedly stabbing his 62-year-old mother, Mrs. Janet Ogah, to death.

What could have pushed a doctor to kill his mother?

The state Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said he was arrested on Thursday, following a complaint from one Cletus Ogah who reported the incident at Itele-Ota divisional headquarters of the command that his younger brother had stabbed their mother to death.

Acting on the tip-off, the Divisional Police Officer, Lukman Raheem, led detectives to the scene of the alleged crime at No. 16 Ololade Street Lafenwa, Itele-Ota, where the suspect was arrested.

According to the police, preliminary investigation revealed that the suspect, who recently completed his National Youth Service Corps programme, had been quarrelling with his mother.

Oyeyemi said the suspect in his statement, claimed that his mother was in the habit of insulting and disgracing him in the presence of her apprentices, hence, he took her life. She sells food.

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The remains of the woman, the police said, had been deposited at a mortuary for an autopsy.

The state Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Iliyasu, ordered the immediate transfer of the suspect to the homicide section of the Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department for investigation.