Police arrests landlady who invited soldiers to beat her tenant to death

An Ogun Statae landlady has landed in police net, after the army officers she invited to beat her tenant, left him dead after the assault.

This is coming after the story of the deceased, who was reportedly dumped in the streets of Ogun went viral.

Punch reports that an eyewitness alleged that the deceased’s landlady invited the soldiers after a misunderstanding ensued between them, over the two-month rent arrears the victim owed.

However, on arriving the scene of the incident at 10 Prince Jamiu Oyebade Street, Ogijo, the soldiers manhandled and brutalized the deceased, landing him in the Pillars Hospital, Ogijo.

He said; “The beating happened last week. It was the landlady of the
victim that invited the military from 174 Battalion just because of little misunderstanding.

The victim has been in the hospital since that last week before he finally gave up yesterday night. His family brought his body, dumped it at the front of the house for the landlady.” 

The eyewitness further disclosed that the landlady, has been arrested by the police.