The wife of a monarch in Osun state, alongside two others, have been arrested by the state’s Police Command for allegedly setting the house of her rival ablaze and killing her three-year-stepdaughter in the process.
Oladimihan Adeoye, Commissioner of Police in the state, who made this known to newsmen, said the husband of the suspect and a traditional ruler, Oba Morufudeen Olawale, reported the incident to the command.
Olawale is the Alabudo of Abudo in Egbedore Local Government Area of Osun.
The police chief said the suspect and her accomplices set the rival’s home on fire at about 1. am on June 6th. The rival and her now late daughter were both inside.
”The suspects on June 5, 2018, left Ede for Abudo, a village in the Egbedore Local Government Area, and set ablaze the house of one Olawale Kadijat, aged 20, in Abudo. Consequently, one Ikimoh Akeem, a three-year-old girl, lost her life, while Khadijat, the fourth wife of the monarch,was injured by the fire and admitted to a hospital for treatment. Investigation revealed that the female suspect did not support the marriage of her husband to the fourth wife and because of this, she conspired with the other suspects to carry out the crime” he said
