One Miss Omolola Abogunrin, a serving member of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC
has been reported murdered by unknown rapists, 13 days to her wedding and 29th
birthday. Miss Omolola Abogunrin, was
murdered in a sultry afternoon in the compound of an agriculture
research
institute located in Apata area of Ibadan, the Oyo State capital on Sunday.
The deceased, it was learnt, was raped and strangled beside
a stream within the expansive premises of the National Cereal Research
Institute, Moor Plantation, Ibadan at about 1:30 pm. It was learnt that sympathizers confirmed rape and
strangulation through the semen found on her private part and nail wounds
around her neck respectively on discovering her corpse.
Miss Abogunrin, who was looking forward to her wedding which
was scheduled for October 17, the day she would have been 29 years old, was
completing her one year compulsory national service in Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State,
as at the time of her death.
While the State Police Command are still on the trail of the
murderers, her lover, Olusola Babalola, has since been arrested and detained. Confirming the incident, the Police Public Relations Officer
(PPRO) in Oyo State, Adekunle Ajisebutu, said Omolola’s corpse has since been
deposited at the morgue of state hospital, Adeoyo.
Ajisebutu also disclosed that the case has since been
transferred to the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the command,
stressing that the command would do everything to bring Omolola’s killers to
book.
Source
The Nation
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