The Eastern South Regional Police Command of the Ghana Police Service has detained a suspect named Victor Benjamin Fejemirokum. He is connected to the death of SRC Lasisi Funmilayo Oluwamayokun, a Federal Road Safety Corps official, and her daughter, Sewa Lasisi.
The Ghana Police talked about this at a press conference yesterday. A video of it was posted on the Facebook page of Channel One TV, a local Ghanaian news organization.
George Ohene-Boadi, the Regional Commander, says that the suspect was caught hiding at his friend’s residence.
Ohene-Boadi stated that police officers arrested the man after getting a tip that he had left Nigeria and was hiding there.
He stated, “I want to let you know that a Nigerian man who is thought to have killed a woman and her daughter in Nigeria and then fled to Ghana to avoid being caught by the Nigerian police has been arrested.”
A viral video that said the suspect, Victor Benjamin Fejemirokum, had kidnapped and killed a woman who worked for the FRSC and her daughter in Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria, led to his arrest.
The Nigerian Police were looking for the suspect, but he went to Ghana to hide with a friend in Akyem Wenchi, a neighborhood of Akwatia. The Eastern South Regional Police Command promptly sent in an intelligence-led operation to arrest the suspect at his friend’s residence in Akwatia after learning that he was hiding there.
The Ghana Police stated they were looking on ways to send the suspect back to Nigeria.
“The suspect is now in police custody, and there are frantic efforts to turn him over to the Nigerian authorities,” the police chief added.
Earlier reports said that Lasisi, 39, and her teenage daughter went missing on Sunday morning, November 2, after leaving their home at the Obasanjo Hilltop Estate in Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta, and not coming back.
Oluwamayokun is a fourth-level senior operational officer in the FRSC hierarchy. He is in charge of managing several routes and coordinating strategic enforcement actions.
The Ogun State Police Command said that family and friends tried to call the officer and her daughter on their cell phones but were unable, according to The PUNCH.
After a few days of being missing, a police inquiry found their dismembered bodies at a suspected herbalist’s cave in Osun.
After the finding, our reporter learned that the herbalist and some other suspects had been caught, but the main suspect was still on the run.
Lanre Ogunlowo, the Ogun State Police Commissioner, also indicated that the probe had been turned over to the Osun State Command and that the Ogun State Police would help as needed.
In the meantime, the Osun State Police Public Relations Officer told our reporter in an earlier conversation that the Command will send out an official message after the inquiry was over.
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