A 43 years old man, Yusuf Hassan, has been arrested by men of Ogun State Police Command for setting the apartment of his ex-lover, Busayo Falola, ablaze thereby burning down the whole building.
According to the spokesman of the command, SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, the suspect was arrested on April 4, 2023, following a report lodged at Ago Iwoye divisional headquarters by the 62 years old landlady of the house, Adejoke Salau.
The landlady reported that she heard a noise from one of her building within her compound situated at 127, Old Scholar Palace, Igan Road, Ago Iwoye, at about 1:15 am.
She said when she came out, she discovered that the building was on fire.
She stated further that the house got burnt completely.
Upon the report, the Divisional Police Officer, Ago Iwoye, CSP Noah Adekanye, led his men to the scene from where the occupants of the house were invited to the station for interrogation in order to know the possible cause of the inferno.
On interrogation, one of the tenants, Falola Busayo informed the police that she saw her ex-lover Yusuf Hassan at the back of her window at about 12:30 a.m. of the fateful day.
She explained further that she was scared to see him at that ungodly hour which made her to scream and run out of her room to the room of another tenant.
That, she said, made other tenants to come out in order to check what Yusuf was up to, only for them to discover flame coming out from Busayo’s room.
Upon the information, Yusuf Hassan was hunted for and subsequently apprehended.
He initially denied knowing anything about the incident, but when the DPO ordered detectives to go to his house and find out whether he was at home as of the time of the incident, he decided to open up and confessed being the person who set the house ablaze.
He confessed further that he intended to burn his ex-lover in her own apartment because he had tried his possible best to reconcile with her but to no avail, and that was the reason why he bought N500 petrol, poured it into her room through the window and set it on fire.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Frank Mba, has directed that the suspect be transferred to State Criminal Investigation Departments for further investigation and possible prosecution.
