The suspected mentally deranged man hacked two pupils of Saint John’s Anglican Primary School, Agodo, Ogun State to death has been nabbed by some youths of the area.
According to reports, the suspect, identified as Lekan Adebisi, was apprehended, this morning, while trying to flee the town and has since been handed over to the police.
Adebisi had stormed the school at 11:15 a.m. during lunch break and attacked some pupils who were playing in the school field.
Two four-year-old male pupils – Mubarak Kalesowo and Sunday Obituyi – were hacked down.
Eyewitnesses said the suspect fled the scene after the crime.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said the suspect was arrested in the early hours of Wednesday through the combined efforts of the policemen attached to Ogbere Area Command led by Makinde Kayode, an Assistant Commissioner of Police and some local hunters.
The state Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Iliyasu, who was said to be so furious about the incident, was said to have given a marching order to the Area Commander Ogbere and the Divisional Police Officer, Abigi Division, to arrest the suspect within the shortest possible time.
In compliance with the Iliyasu’s order, the Area Commander mobilised policemen and local hunters for the manhunt of the suspect.
He said,
“Their efforts paid off in the early hours of today(Wednesday) when the suspect was seen in a bush around the community.
“While they wanted to arrest him, the suspect who was brandishing a sharp cutlass, attacked them consequence upon which he was shot and injured on the leg.”
Oyeyemi, an Assistant Superintendent of Police, said the suspect has been taken to hospital for medical treatment.
Meanwhile, Iliyasu has directed that the case be transferred to Homicide section of State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, Abeokuta, for proper investigation.
