Police arrest man who set ex-lover's apartment ablaze in Ogun

Hassan Yusuf, 43, was detained by Ogun State Police Command officers for reportedly lighting Busayo Falola's residence on fire.

According to reports, the suspect set fire to the entire structure at 127 Old Schorlar Palace Igan Road Ago-Iwoye in the state's Ijebu-North Local Government Area in protest of his ex-refusal lover's to make amends.

This information was released in a statement on Saturday by SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, the state's police public relations officer.

According to Oyeyemi, the suspect was detained after the 62-year-old landlady of the residence, Adejoke Salau, filed a report at the Ago Iwoye divisional headquarters.

The PPRO stated that the landlord claimed she noticed a noise coming from one of her buildings inside of her compound on Tuesday at around 1:15 am, and when she went outside, she found the building was on fire with the tenants inside the house trapped inside.

He explained further “She stated further that it was a  quick intervention of neighbours that rescued the three tenants, but the house got burnt completely.

“Upon the report, the DPO Ago Iwoye, CSP Noah Adekanye, led his men to the scene from where the occupants of the house were invited to the station for interrogation in order to know the possible cause of the inferno.

“On interrogation, 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 hour which made her scream and ran out of her room to the room of another tenant.

“This made other tenants come out in order 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 being the person who set the house ablaze.

“He confessed further that he intended to burn his ex-lover in her own apartment because he had tried his possible best to reconcile with her but  all to no avail, and that was the reason he bought N500 petrol, poured it into her room through the window and set it on fire.”

Oyeyemi, however, claimed that the suspect has been transferred to State Criminal Investigation Departments for additional investigation and potential prosecution at the direction of Police Commissioner Frank Mba.

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