Thirteen days to her wedding and 29th birthday, a corps member, Miss Omolola Abogunrin, has been murdered by unknown criminals.
She
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 late Miss Abogunrin was said to have been
raped and strangled beside a stream within the expansive premises of the
National Cereal Research Institute, Moor Plantation, Ibadan at about
1:30 pm.
Police are still on the trail of the murderers.
The deceased was looking forward to her wedding which was scheduled for October 17, the day she would have been 29 years old.
A
close source disclosed that the couple-to-be held their family
introduction four months ago, paving the way for proper marriage
ceremony.
The wedding was to hold at a Christ Apostolic Church in Ibadan where both lovers live.
It
was learnt that sympathizers confirmed rape and strangulation through
the Fluid found on her private part and nail wounds around her neck
respectively on discovering her corpse.
Residents said the
deceased was returning from church when she was waylaid by the unknown
criminals in a bush path within the institute’s farmland. She was said
to be on her way to her lover’s house to spend some time with a plan to
return home afterwards.
Her lover, Olusola Babalola, has since been arrested and detained by the police.
Omolola graduated from the Polytechnic, Ibadan.
She was completing her one year compulsory national service in Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State, as at the time of her death.
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.
He explained that her lover, Mr. Babalola, was arrested and detained as part of police investigation on the broad-day murder.
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.