The Ogun State Police Command has arrested a 47-year old house wife, Joy Egeonu, for allegedly  beaten her husband’s 11-year old niece to death over  the sum of N6,500.

A statement by the command’s Public Relations Officer, DSP. Abimbola Oyeyemi,  stated that the deceased, identified as Chibuike Egeonu was accused of stealing his sister in-law’s money.

Oyeyemi added that the suspect was promptly arrested following a report by the deceased’s mother,  Ijeoma Egeonu,  who reported  the incident at  the Agbado Police Divisional headquarters.

As at the time of the incident, the deceased was said to be  living with her elder brother and his wife at Opeilu,  Agbado Area of the state.

The police  stated further that  after the incident, which happened last Sunday, the suspect  took the corpse of the boy to Ifo where she hurriedly buried him.

”On the strength of the report, the DPO Agbado Division,  CSP Omonijo Olatunji, led his detectives to the scene where the woman was promptly arrested”.

”On interrogation, the suspect claimed to have suspected the boy as the person who stole her money which prompted her to flog the boy to the point of coma” the PPRO stated in the statement.

 Oyeyemi quoted Mrs. Egeonu as stating further that the boy gave up the ghost while she was taking him to the hospital.

Egeonu, who  was said to have regretted her action, lamented that  she later discovered that the missing money was taken by her husband and not the deceased. 

Meanwhile, the Ogun State Police Commissioner, Ahmed Iliyasu,  has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspect to  the Homicide Section of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department9 SCIID)  for further investigation. 

The PPRO also stated that the commissioner had also ordered the arrest of the suspect’s husband who  was said to have assisted in burying his nephew in order to cover the criminal act of his wife.