42-year-old Temitope Akinola has been arrested by the Ogun State Police Command for killing her two-day-old granddaughter by poisoning by her with an insecticide, Sniper.
Akinola was arrested following the complaint theΒ baby’s mother filed with the police. The distraught lady reportedly went to bath and returnedΒ to see a lifeless body of her baby she left with her mother.
βUpon the information, the DPO Shagamu division, SP Okiki Agunbiade, detailed his detectives to the scene where the killer grandmother was promptly arrested,β Ogun policer spokesperson, Mr AbimbolaΒ Oyeyemi said.
The grandmother who admitted killing her grandchild said she did it because she never liked the man her daughter had the baby for. She said she triedΒ to terminate her daughter’s pregnancy but was warned against doing such by her Pastor.
Akinola told the police upon being interrogated that she decided to wait till the baby was born before carryingΒ out her plan.
She has been transferred to the homicide section of the state criminal investigation and intelligence department for further investigation and prosecution, while theΒ corpse of the baby hasΒ been deposited at Olabisi Onabanjo teaching hospital mortuary for autopsy.
