42-yr-old woman kills to stop daughter’s marriage

One Temitope Akinola, 42, has been arrested by the Ogun State Police Command for killing her two-year-old granddaughter in other to stop her daughter from marrying the baby’s father.

Akinola, who resides at the Isote area of Sagamu was arrested on Thursday last week, the same day she gave the little girl a deadly insecticide, Snipper, leading to her death.

The state police spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said in a statement on Sunday that Akinola’s arrest followed information received by the police in the Sagamu Division after the death of the child, adding that the suspect had never hidden her hatred for the father of the baby.

According to the statement, the suspect was the only one with the child while the mother went to take her bath, only for her to come back and meet the lifeless body of the baby.

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Oyeyemi said: “Upon the information, the DPO, Sagamu Division, Okiki Agunbiade, detailed his detectives to the scene, where the killer grandmother was promptly arrested.

“On interrogation, the suspect admitted to 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 be delivered of the baby before carrying out her devilish intention.

“She explained further that she poisoned the baby with a deadly insecticide known as Sniper.”

The spokesman revealed further that the baby’s corpse had been deposited in the Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital mortuary for autopsy, while the suspect had been transferred to the homicide section of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department for further investigation and prosecution.

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