Final year student arrested for poisoning girlfriend, friend

Oladokun Ayomide, a final-year student at the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, has been placed under arrest by the Ogun State Police Command on suspicion of poisoning two women: Odumosu Semilore and Ugbokwe Mmasichukwu, his girlfriend.

The police said that after inviting his girlfriend to his home in the Surulere neighbourhood of the Camp neighbourhood of the city on Friday, the suspect gave her a poison that was thought to be a mixture of brownie cakes, alcohol, and an unidentified toxic substance.

Tnt gathered that while leaving for the suspect’s residence, Mmasichukwu told her schoolmate, Semilore, to accompany her to her boyfriend’s place at Surulere community, Camp, Abeokuta.

Serving them the substance suspected to be poisonous, our correspondent learnt that the victims were rushed to the hospital when they lost consciousness immediately after they ate the harmful cake.

Although the reason behind the suspect’s action remained unknown as of the time this report was filed, the police told our correspondent that a preliminary investigation revealed that Ayomide was suspected to have an intention to harm the victims.

The Chief Security Officer of the Federal College of Education, Osiele Abeokuta, Olusola Ajibola, who led the arrest of the suspect, told the police that Mmasichukwu and Semilore were students of the institution, while Ayomide was a final-year student of FUNAAB.

Contacted, the Public Relations Officer, Omolola Odutola, told our correspondent that the victims were responding to treatment, adding that further investigation was going on to unravel the circumstances behind the incident.

“The victims were believed to have been fed brownie cake, and they immediately lost consciousness after eating it and were taken to the Osiele Medical Centre for treatment.

“A foil paper pack used for the brownie cake was found when our officers visited the crime scene. The suspect was given over to the police division by the Chief Security Officer of the school,” Odutola stated on Tuesday.