An Ondo-based legal practitioner, Abayomi Oladire, has accused the state police command of laxity in its duties as its men allegedly failed to arrest a man, Kunle Kuteyi, whom he claimed attacked and stabbed him for helping his wife file a divorce suit.
Oladire, who spoke on Sunday, from the hospital where he is currently receiving treatment as a result of the attack, alleged that after the suspect attacked him, he reported the matter at a police station in Ondo town. However, he accused the police of being lackadaisical about the case saying the suspect had been moving around the town freely without being arrested.
The lawyer said Kuteyi allegedly stabbed him several times with a broken bottle for handling a divorce case between him (suspect ) and his wife, Taibat, at a court in Ondo town.
He narrated, “The wife asked me to prepare a divorce paper because her husband lied to him about the case (of a property sold). I prepared the divorce and later she came back to me that she was not interested anymore because her husband’s family had begged her to forgive her husband. I told her that I would tell the judge on the next day of adjournment. On that Sunday evening, I was going to my sister’s child naming ceremony when I saw the suspect and he said he had been looking for me because I prepared a divorce paper for his wife.
“He said to me, ‘You are dating my wife that is why you want to prepare a divorce letter for us’, and I explained to him that his wife had told me that she was no longer interested in the divorce case and we were going to withdraw the case in the next day of adjournment. Then, he rushed at me and bit me in my jaw, brought out a broken bottle and started stabbing me. The only thing I did was to guard myself so that he would not stab me on my neck and other dangerous parts of my body.”
“In the course of performing my legal profession by preparing a divorce for his wife, the suspect attempted to kill me by stabbing me viciously and walking freely in the town and all the police stations in Ondo couldn’t arrest him, even though I had reported the matter to the police.”
In a reaction, however, the state Police Public Relations Officer, Mrs Funmilayo Odunlami, told journalists that the matter was not reported at any police station.
“I have contacted the DPOs in Ondo town, and they said no such case was reported at the police station. There is no way we won’t arrest such a suspect if the matter had been reported,” the PPRO said.
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