Ekiti police command have arrested a suspect who allegedly killed a middle-aged commercial motorcyclist, Mr. Sunday Olorunleke in Ado Ekiti.
Olorunleke was stabbed to death in his residence located at Aba area of the state capital at the weekend.
The Command spokesman, DSP Caleb Ikechukwu said the suspected was apprehended following a tip off.
The PPRO who did not reveal the identity of the suspect noted that he would soon be paraded after completion of preliminary investigations.
“I can confirm that we have arrested a suspect over the killing of Mr. Sunday Olorunleke.
“We got the report of the incident over the weekend and we swung into action and through our intelligence we are able to get the suspect who stabbed the man. He is in our custody and we will parade him any moment from now,” he said.
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The deceased was alone in the house when the incident happened as his wife and children were said to had traveled and returned on Saturday morning to meet him in the pool of blood.
A source who confirmed the killing said the incident might have happened between Thursday night and Saturday morning, adding the man was sighted in the neighborhood on Thursday morning.
The source said, “The wife of the deceased put a call across to the some of the neighbors on Thursday when she could not reach her husband on phone and they informed her that they saw him that very day.
“We were shocked after the wife arrived Saturday morning and met the door closed and sought the assistance of people to break the door where she found her husband corpse on the floor lying in pool of his own blood, ” he said.
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