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A housewife has been arrested by police detectives in Oyo State, over the death of her husband, who gave up the ghost after his genital was cut off during a fight between the couple.
A housewife has been arrested by police detectives in Oyo State, over the death of her husband, who gave up the ghost after his genital was cut off during a fight between the couple.
Funke Ojeleke was said to have been picked up at the Low Cost Estate, Adeniran Ogbomoso after her husband, Ademola Ojeleke, was discovered dying in the room jointly shared by the couple with blood gushing out of his mouth and genital.
Although police detectives were still struggling to unravel what could have pushed the housewife to severe her husband's genital, Daily Sun learnt that the arrested housewife also sustained machete cuts on her body.
Police First Information Report (FIR) revealed that a son to the deceased, Adelola Ojeleke, had reported at Arowomole Police Station how he discovered his father dying in his bedroom vomiting and blood gushing out of his male organ (Penis).
The injured man was said to have been rushed to a private hospital in the town where he gave up the ghost. Ojeleke's wife too, Funke, was said to have sustained machete cuts on her body.
Police detectives, drafted to the scene of the incident, were said to have discovered two machetes, stained with blood at the bedside of the feuding couple while the wife was promptly arrested.
When contacted on the incident on Wednesday, Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in the state, Miss Olabisi Okuwobi, a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), confirmed the incident, saying a full scale investigation has been launched into the case to unravel what actually happened between the couple.
According to her, the state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Azeez Basiru, has ordered the homicide department of the command to investigate the incident while the deceased's wife has been detained at the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID).