Hyacinth Chinweuba
Ogun State Police Command has arrested a 42year old woman Temitope Akinola a resident of Isote area of shagamu for poisoning her 2 day old granddaughter which resulted to her death.
Her arrest followed an information received by police in shagamu division after the reported death of the child that the suspect, who has never hidden her hatred for her son in law who happened to be the father of the baby was the only person with the child while the baby’s mother went to take her birth, only for her to come back and met the lifeless body of the baby.
According to DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi PPRO Ogun State Police Command, Acting on the information, the DPO shagamu division SP Okiki Agunbiade detailed his detectives to the scene where the killer grandmother was promptly arrested.
On interrogation, the suspect admitted killing the baby because she didn’t like her daughter getting married to the father of the deceased baby.
She confessed further that when she discovered that her daughter was pregnant, she made an attempt to terminate the pregnancy but her pastor warned her not to do so hence she waited for her to deliver before carrying out her devilish intention.
She explained further that she poisoned the baby with a deadly insecticide known as sniper.
The corpse of the baby has been deposited at Olabisi Onabanjo teaching hospital mortuary for autopsy, while the suspect has been transferred to homicide section of the state criminal investigation and intelligence department for further investigation and prosecution.