A 36-year-old man Musiliu Owolabi, has been arrested for allegedly burying his lover, Fausat Idowu, in Ogun State.
Owolabi was said to have taken Fausat, a mother of five, to a hotel for pleasure when she suddenly fell ill and eventually died.
The State Police Commissioner, CP Ahmed Iliyasu, said the suspect, a mechanic secretly buried her lover in an uncompleted building at Osara village, off Abeokuta-Ibadan Expressway.
The suspect was arrested following a report to the Police by the younger brother of the deceased, Hammed Idowu, that his sister who went for a naming ceremony at Bode Olude area of Abeokuta, was nowhere to be found.
The CP said the deceased’s telephone call log was profiled and the suspect was the last person that spoke with her.
Iliyasu said “On interrogation, the suspect admitted taking the deceased to Rocky Gold Hotel at Iyana-Apakila, Abeokuta, for pleasure, where he claimed she fell ill and later took her in his vehicle, but died under a mysterious circumstance in the car.
He further confessed that he took the corpse to a nearby bush, dug a shallow grave and buried it without disclosing same to anybody.”
In his confession, the suspect said, the deceased had been her lover for six months, adding that it was the first time both of them would make move to have sex together.
He said, “We were just removing our clothes when she suddenly developed a severe temperature and later slumped. It was while I was taking her to the hospital in my vehicle that I discovered she has died.
I did not inform the Police or anyone about the incident. I became apprehensive and decided to hide the corpse and later buried her in the midnight.”
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