- Oluwadare, a pastor also known as Ara-ina, has since been arrested by the police over the heinous crime
- The stepbrother of the deceased, Samuel Ibironke, confirmed the development
One Abiodun Sunday Oluwadare has allegedly snuffed life out of his heavily pregnant wife, Tosin Oluwadare, the police in Nigeria’s south west state of Ekiti have said.
Oluwadare, a pastor also known as Ara-ina, has since been arrested by the police over the heinous crime.
The incident happened over the weekend at Ido-Ile Ekiti.
The stepbrother of the deceased, Samuel Ibironke, confirmed the development, according to him, the pastor called his wife, who is a health worker, to assist him, only to discover that he had strangulated his sister to death.
According to reports, the fearsome self-acclaimed former notorious herbalist was posted to a popular Christ Apostolic Church in Ori Oke Ido Mountain in Ekiti West, where he was once expelled before this nefaw act took place.
It was gathered that the suspect was caught with the corpse on his way out of town for the removal of the foetus in his dead wife’s womb without the parents approval before he was stopped at Ita-Ido.
He has since been taken to the police post in Ido-Ile and later to Ekiti West District Police before being transferred to the homicide section of the state command
He was said to be legally married to Adeyemi Adetola Oluwadare, who already had two grown children for him before he allegedly killed her.
It was also gathered that the deceased was the only child of her mother, who is reported to be in coma since the incident happened.
Spokesman of the State Police Command, DSP Sunday Abutu, who confirmed the arrest, said that investigation was ongoing.
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