The Edo Condition Police Command has detained a 16-year-old woman, Aisha Suleiman, who’s accused of fatally poisoning her ex-boyfriend, known as Emmanuel, and 4 alternative younger males in Afashio people within the Etsako West Native Govt Department of Edo Condition.
The disastrous discovery was once reported on October 26, 2024, when Emmanuel’s father, Mr Elogie Ezekiel, arrived at his son’s rental round 6:30 a.m. that week and noticed some dead our bodies in the home.
Ezekiel reportedly discovered the frame of a tender guy, Nurudeen, within the hall.
Transferring additional into the rental, he came upon Emmanuel, 19, and his female friend, known as Ada Samuel, additionally 16, mendacity dead at the bed room mattress.
Two alternative buddies of Emmanuel’s, Samuel and Jeffrey Ayegwalo, each siblings, had been discovered unresponsive within the sitting room.
All 5 had been in an instant transported to the health facility, the place medical doctors pronounced them lifeless on arrival.
Some assets within the segment famous that the sufferers had simply fed on a pot of pepper soup ready through Suleiman for the 5 buddies.
The investigation took an important flip 3 days then when police gained a document that Suleiman, who was once purported to have poisoned the sufferers, was once about to be lynched through a gaggle of younger males from the people.
The atmosphere Police Crowd Family members Officer, SP Moses Yamu, instructed our correspondent on Friday that cops from the Jattu Section had been temporarily mobilised to the scene, intervened, and transported Suleiman safely to the station.
“The case has been transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department to conduct a thorough investigation,” Yamu added.
In the meantime, the Commissioner of Police, CP Umoru Ozigi, has ordered an in depth investigation, teaching officials to pursue each imaginable supremacy to decide the actual explanation for loss of life within the case.
He additionally warned in opposition to any mode of mob motion, urging the people to permit the police to hold out their tasks. CP Ozigi reassured the family that justice could be pursued diligently.