Don’t kill me, send me to jail, suspected killer of ex-wife’s husband begs

A 43-year-old man, Adebisi
Akinrinmola, who allegedly killed his ex-wife’s
husband, Ashimiyu Ademola, last week at Ajebo
village, Ijebu-Igbo area of Ogun State, has begged
that he should not be sentenced to death, saying the
devil made him do it.
He disclosed this when Ogun State Police Command
paraded no fewer than 43 suspected kidnappers,
murderers and robbers arrested between January
and February this year.
Akinrinmola, a cocoa farmer, who hails from Ode-
Oka in Ondo State, told journalists that he was
married to his former wife for nine years, but that the
union produced no child, explaining that he killed
her husband “because he chased me with cutlass
when we were quarrelling and I have to defend
myself.”
His words: “When we were quarrelling, he squeezed
my cloth at my neck and I managed to escape from
him. He now started chasing me with a cutlass. I ran
inside my house, took a gun and shot him. It is the
work of the devil.
“The government should have mercy on me by not
sentencing me to death, but send me to jail.”
Other suspects
During the parade of no fewer than 43 suspected
kidnappers, murderers and robbers arrested between
January and February, the command disclosed that
it recovered 25 arms and 32 ammunition in two
months, adding that 19 kidnappers, 24 suspected
murderers and impersonators were also arrested in
the same period.
The state Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Iliyasu,
while parading the suspects at the Police
Command’s headquarters, Eleweran-Abeokuta, said
the command employed proactive measures to curb
the menace of cultism, kidnapping, robbery and
other criminal activities.
Among those paraded was a five-member robbery
gang from Chad and Niger republics, who the
Commissioner said confessed to have robbed a Chief
Magistrate, Mrs Sofowora Oriyomi, in Abeokuta and
one Pastor Abatan of the Redeemed Christian Church
of God at Idi-Aba area of Abeokuta.

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