Man, 20, kills 65-year-old Ondo woman over alleged 3,000 theft

Man, 20, kills 65-year-old Ondo woman over alleged 3,000 theft

A 20-year-old man, Friday Akinmade, has been arrested by the Ondo State Security Network Agency, known as Amotekun, for the alleged murder of a 65-year-old woman.

The incident reportedly occurred in Owo, Akinmade’s hometown, where he is accused of killing the elderly woman with a stick after stealing N3,000 from her.

During an interview with journalists at the Amotekun headquarters in Akure, the state capital, Akinmade confessed to hitting the woman twice on the head with a stick, claiming he did not realize she would later die from the injuries.

He recounted that the confrontation arose when he accused her of stealing, prompting her to flee the scene.

Akinmade was paraded alongside 26 other individuals arrested for various crimes, including kidnapping, theft, and burglary, by the Commander of the Amotekun Corps, Akogun Adetunji Adeleye.

Adeleye said: “Akinmade Friday outrightly killed a 65-year-old woman. This is a 20-year-old boy.”

“We have a 42-year-old man who attacked Amotekun officers in a bid to cover his nefarious activity by the name Gbenro. We equally have Samuel Peter, a 21-year-old man, who engaged in an attempted murder.

“We have a 30-year-old man who engaged in malicious damage, cultism and attempted murder of law enforcement agents.

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“In the same way, we narrowed down on one Segun Owolabi, 20 years old, who engages in stealing motorcycles and robbing dispossessed rightful owners.

“We have a gang that specialises in burgling houses, especially when owners of such houses are not in their houses.

“We have Toba, Pelumi, Ogumade, and Oriade, whose age bracket ranges between 22 and 25.
We equally have Shegwo Yusuf, who engages in malicious damage to household properties.

“The uniqueness of today’s parade is that apart from very little cases, about two or three kidnapping cases at the borders, that is the Akunu-Kogi-Ondo border, where we had two cases of kidnapping and in Ose border-Edo-Ondo border, where we had one case in the last two weeks, we could say that the entire 18 local governments are at peace.

“Generally speaking, I want to place on record that Ondo state is peaceful and community friendly, investment friendly, and farmers are encouraged to go to the farm as the Amotekun rangers are already in the farms across the state, especially in the government forest reserves to ensure that there are no infringements.

“Apart from this, what the security situation has enumerated tells us that as a result of the harsh economic situation we have in the country, there are more cases of housebreaking.

“A cross-section of this showed that more than before, the state is getting more peaceful. I want to assure the residents of Ondo State that the Ondo State Security Network Agency will continue to engage criminals, both within the town and in the forest, towards ensuring that people can sleep with their two eyes closed in their houses, farmers can go to their farms and commuters can travel without fear, especially as the yuletide period is coming in.”

Man, 20, kills 65-year-old Ondo woman over alleged 3,000 theft