It was a bloody Thursday morning for people living at Obantoko
area of Abeokuta, as a police corporal attached to the Ogun state Police
Command, simply called Egunbiyi shot six people to death, before killing
himself. The policeman took the action when he learnt that someone was sleeping
with his wife.
On hearing the ugly story of his wife’s infidelity, Egunbiyi left the police headquarters at
Eleweran, just a few kilometres to the scene of the incident, on a commercial
motorcycle, raced to the house, shot at his wife, Tosin, who is also a police
officer attached to Obantoko Police Station, the landlady of the house, Iya
Basira, the landlady’s daughter, Basira, the landlady’s son called Taofeek,
another unnamed son as well her grandchild called Kaosara Jesu Tofunmi.
He also shot and killed Kunle, the motorcycle rider who
brought him to the house before killing himself. Three other victims he shot,
one of them called Sikiru, were said to be in critical condition and rushed to
Federal Medical Centre at Idi-Aba.
The seven corpses had also been taken away from the scene of
the incident and deposited at the Federal Medical Centre, Idi-Aba, Abeokuta.
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