365news gathered that Obeta John, a 27-year-old suspected online fraudster also known as Yahoo Boy, is accused of killing his girlfriend Idowu Buhari because she allegedly refused to send him the proceeds of a fraud that a victim had supposedly placed into the girl’s account.
According to reports, the culprit battered the victim, an HND 1 mass communication student at Gateway Polytechnic Saapade, Ogun State, to death.
The suspect was detained on Tuesday as a result of a distress call that was received at the Ode-Remo divisional headquarters, according to Abimbola Oyeyemi, the Ogun State police spokesperson.
The suspect, Eredu Ishara, who lives at 3, Mojubade Compound, reportedly shut his door before beginning to beat the girl and bashing her head against the wall.
Acting on the distress call, Oyeyemi said the DPO of Ode-Remo division, CSP Fasogbon Olayemi, had quickly led his officers to the scene, “where they met the victim in the pool of her blood after forcing the door open.”
The police rushed the victim to the State Hospital, Ishara, where she was pronounced dead by the doctor on duty.
The suspect said to be an indigene of Enugu State, is presently in police custody.
“On interrogation, the suspect informed the police that he is an internet fraudster and that a certain amount of money from one of his clients was paid into the account of his deceased girlfriend which she refused to relinquish to him,” Oyeyemi explained.
He quoted the suspect as saying that the fight over the said money had eventually led to the death of the girl.
Meanwhile, the State Commissioner of Police in Ogun, Lanre Bankole, has ordered the transfer of the suspect to the State CIID for further investigation and prosecution by the homicide team.
