The Lagos State Police Command has arrested one Samuel Adeniyi who allegedly killed his girlfriend with a sledgehammer, which he hit on her head in a yet-to-be-disclosed area of Lagos.
The state Commissioner of Police, Idowu Owohunwa, disclosed this during a press briefing at the Police Officers Mess, Ikeja, Lagos, on Thursday.
Owohunwa said the suspect justified killing the yet-to-be-identified girlfriend because he was bothered that the girlfriend might leave him for another person.
The police boss, while parading suspects in Lagos, said, “One Samuel Adeniyi got consumed by emotions and smashed the head of his girlfriend and killed her.
“He said he suspected that the girl may leave him, and perhaps for just that reason, he killed her and ran away.
“We have succeeded in arresting him and recovering the sledgehammer that he used, and we will bring him to justice.”
Owohunwa also paraded other suspected criminals in Lagos, adding that within one month of launching Operation Flush, the police had recorded successes by raiding criminal hideouts and arresting suspected cultists and armed traffic robbers.
“Within the past two weeks, we recovered 18 firearms, including two AK 47 rifles, one locally fabricated and one very unique gun. It is a form of weapon that has never been found in the armoury of criminals in this country; it was also recovered.
“Two locally fabricated toy guns that were used to perfect robbery were also recovered.
“Fifteen cartridges, four expended cartridges, six matches, 34 bags of weeds suspected to be Indian hemp, and two bags containing fak
