The Oyo State Police Command has arrested a man suspected to have killed his daughter, Miss Kausara Isiaka, for allegedly converting to Christianity.
According to a Reverend Daniel Oladimeji, one of the four persons he attacked with machete, the suspect had long been suspected to be the brain behind the attack.
According to the police public relations officer, DSP Olabisi Ilobanafor, one Mary Oladimeji of Calvary Church, Ayekale, Ibadan, reported the incident at the station at about 2am on February 26, 2014.
Though, the police are yet to determine his culpability or otherwise, the suspect allegedly sneaked into the church premises and inflicted machete cuts on four persons – Mary Oladimeji, his daughter Kausara Isiaka, Aanu and the pastor of the church.
It was further gathered that the father of the deceased who is a Muslim, allegedly pled severally with his daughter to rconsider her decision, before he began to make threats.
The police stated that the girl had to take refuge in the church to prevent her father from carrying out his threat. But on the night she took refuge in the church, a yet-to-be identified attacker broke in and inflicted machete injuries on the victims while they were sleeping.
One out of the four victims, the police confirmed, had injuries far more severe than the other three and had to be rushed to the Mobolaji Hospital, Oremeji, Ibadan, before others. She later died at the hospital.
Ilobanafor told LEADERSHIP FRIDAY that the police visited the scene, took photographs and moved the remains of the deceased to Adeoyo State Hospital mortuary for autopsy. One suspect was arrested and the case was transferred to the office of the assistant commissioner of police, State Criminal Investigation Department.
Source: Leadership
