By Ife Osemedua
A 19-year-old girl, Jemila Ibrahim, alongside her friend, Fatima Mohammed, both of Monkey Village in Festac Town, Lagos, have been arrested by the police for setting ablaze the house of Jemila’s ex-lover, Mohammed Yusuf and killing his girlfriend in the process.
The Lagos State Police Command on Monday said in a statement signed by its Public Relations Officer, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, that Ibrahim also set Yusuf’s new girlfriend, Rabi, on fire, leading to her death.
The statement read in part, “The Lagos State Police Command has arrested one Jemila Ibrahim, female, 19-year-old; and her friend, Fatima Mohammed, female, 21-year-old, of Monkey Village, Festac Area, Lagos, for setting ablaze the house of one Mohammed Yusuf, male, of Monkey Village, Lagos State, and his girlfriend, Rabi, female, on 18th November, 2020 at 5.30 pm.
“Mohammed Yusuf, an ex-lover to Jemila, had the hint of the incident and rushed to the house where he met his house on flame but managed to rescue Rabi, his new lover, from the inferno and took her to the hospital where she gave up the ghost on November 21, 2020, at about 12pm.
“Mohammed had alleged his former lover, Jemila Ibrahim, of infidelity before they broke up; he later met and fell in love with his new lover, Rabi, that was caught up in the inferno.
It quoted the Lagos Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, as condemning the crime.
Odumosu “ordered that the matter be transferred to the State CID, Panti, for discreet investigation”.
The Commissioner of Police also vowed to “go after those who engage in crimes and social vices in order to get Lagos State rid of criminals and criminality”.
The police boss however encouraged Lagosians to “shun taking laws into their hands”; noting that “jungle justice will only truncate the administration of justice and such could be counterproductive.”