After eight years, the policemen attached to the Homicide Unit Force Criminal Investigation Department Force headquarters Abuja have arrested one Ademola Balogun in the Epe area of Lagos state for the alleged killing of one Deacon Tayo Hassan, his driver and Personal assistant who were killed in 2016 . The suspect was arrested also for alleged ritual murder , kidnapping, attempted murder , illegal possession of firearms and army uniforms.
The arrest of Balogun follows a petition by one Abayomi Hassan of Sala-Igbodu community in Epe local government area of Lagos state and son of late Deacon Tayo Hassan to the inspector General of Police IGP Kayode Egbetokun.
In the petition sighted by our correspondent, the Petitioner Abayomi Hassan stated that the suspect, Balogun , one Saheed Sanni, Alhaji Nafiu Mukiala ,Alhaji Salabiu Bello , one Mr. Dominic Awoayade, Fatia Apeno, and one chief Oguntaye , the baale of Igbodu allegedly conspired among themselves with others and murdered his father Deacon Tayo Hassan, his mother Mrs. Margret Hassan alongside his father’s driver and his father’s Personal Assistant over a large parcel of land his father owned at Igbodu community in Epe . It was gathered that suspected armed men brutally murdered Deacon Hassan alongside his driver and Personal Assistant On May 11th , 2016 all in their bid to forcefully take over the vast expanse of land owned by Deacon Hassan. It was further gathered that after the gruesome murder of Deacon Hassan, armed men wielding AK 47 rifles , pump action guns, axes, machete , cudgel allegedly led by the suspects targeted Oriwu-Igbodu community last year and shot sporadically and drove out residents from the community in their bid to forcefully took over the land .
While the police were still investigating the crimes against the suspects, it was gathered that the suspects allegedly led a gang of criminals to the late Deacon Hassan’s family house at Number 24 Afolabi Ekiyoyo street , Solubo Estate Ikorodu Lagos on April 28th , 2024 in their bid to kill Deacon Hassan’s son , Abayomi Hassan; after searching for Abayomi who had luckily escaped by the whiskers, the gang assassinated Mrs. Hassan , Abayomi’s mother and since then, the suspects have been on the prowl to assassinate Abayomi.
Following the petition, the Inspector General of Police IGP Egbetokun directed the operatives of the Homicide Department Force CID Abuja to arrest the suspects. The efforts of the police paid off as they stormed one of the prime suspect Ademola Balogun’s house in Epe and arrested him on Monday July 10th .
It was gathered that the police recovered two rifles, army camouflage uniforms from Ademola’s House in Epe while he allegedly confessed to having other rifles in his house in the Ipaja area of Lagos state.
The victim , Abayomi stated in the petition that which read ‘’ I am a member of the Iyelefu family of Ijebu-Oriwu in Ogun state. My forebears deforested Oriwu-Igbodu in Epe local government in Lagos state’’ He added that the killings of his parents and forceful take over of his father’s land not to mention the many attempts on his life are handiworks of the suspects who have become a law to themselves and therefore calls on president Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the Inspector General of police to secure his life by arresting the suspects and their cohorts. Abayomi added that his life is in danger as he has been running from one place to the other with his family so that his parent’s killers will not assassinate him and his family members too.
The petitioner is appealing to the IGP to arrest other suspects still at large include one Saheed Sanni, Alhaji Nafiu Mukiala ,Alhaji Salabiu Bello , one Mr. Dominic Awoayade, Fatia Apeno, and one chief Oguntaye , the baale of Igbodu over alleged their alleged involvement in the murder of his parents , terrorism, and their continued siege on the late Deacon Hassan’s land in Oriwu-Igbodu therefore scaring members of the community from returning to their homes.
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