Police arrest jealous lover who ‘set ex-girlfriend’s family of nine ablaze’

Deji Adenuga, the man suspected to have set his ex-girlfriend’s family of nine ablaze In the Okitipupa Local Council Area of Ondo State, has been arrested.

Adenuga was said to have been arrested in Ogun State following “round-the-clock investigations” by the Police.

The suspected arsonist, who is also an ex-convict, set the family of his former girlfriend, Titi Sunmonu, ablaze in the Igbodigo area of Ayeka in Okitipupa.

Recently, media reported how the middle-aged man, who had some disagreement with her then girlfriend, brought a jerrycan laden with petroleum in the midnight, gained entrance into the building by breaking a window, and sprayed the family while they were asleep.

Femi Joseph, spokesman of the Ondo State Police Command, confirmed Adenuga’s arrest to saying: “Yes, the suspect has been arrested and he is currently in our custody but we shall parade him tomorrow at the headquarters.

“He was arrested in Ijebu-Ode, under the bridge that leads to the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.”