‘I s£t my ex-lover’s house abl@ze because she refused to reconcile with me’ -suspect tells police
Police operatives in Ogun State have arrested a 43-year-old man, Yusuf Hassan, for allegedly setting his ex-lover’s house abl@ze in the Ago Iwoye area of the state.
The command’s image maker, Abimbola Oyeyemi, in a statement on Saturday, April 8, said the incident occurred at about 1:15 am on Tuesday, April 4.
According to him, “A 43 years old man, Yusuf Hassan, was on the 4th of April 2023, arrested by men of Ogun state police command for setting the apartment of his ex-lover Busayo Falola ablaze thereby burning down the whole building.
The suspect was arrested, following a report lodged at Ago Iwoye divisional headquarters by the 62 years old landlady of the house, Adejoke Salau, who reported that she heard a noise from one her building within her compound situated at Ago Iwoye, at about 1:15 am, and when she came out she discovered that the building was on fire while the tenants in the house were tr@pped in there.
Occupants of the house were invited to the station for interrogation and one of the tenants, Falola Busayo informed the police that she saw her ex-lover Yusuf Hassan at the back of her window at about 12:30 am of the fateful day.
She explained further that she was scared to see him at that ungodly hour which made her scream and ran out of her room to the room of another tenant.
This made other tenants come out to check what Yusuf was up to, only for them to discover flame coming out from Busayo’s room. Upon the information, Yusuf Hassan was hunted for and was subsequently apprehended.
He initially denied knowing anything about the incident, but when the DPO ordered detectives to go to his house and find out whether he was at home at the time of the incident, he decided to open up and confessed been the person who set the house abl@ze.
He confessed further that he intended to b¥rn his ex-lover in his own apartment because he had tried his possible best to reconcile with her but to no avail, and that was the reason why he bought N500 petrol, poured it into her room through the window and s£t it on fire.”
