Suspected k!ller of FRSC officer and daughter is arrested in Ghana

A suspect linked to the murder of a Federal Road Safety Corps officer, SRC Lasisi Funmilayo Oluwamayokun, and her daughter, Sewa Lasisi, has been arrested by the Eastern South Regional Police Command of the Ghana Police Service.

The Ghana Police disclosed this during a press briefing held on Sunday, Nov. 23.

According to the Regional Commander, George Ohene-Boadi, the suspect, identified as Victor Benjamin Fejemirokum, was arrested at his friend’s house, where he was hiding. Ohene-Boadi said that following an intelligence report that the suspect had fled Nigeria and was hiding at the location, police operatives swooped on him and arrested him.

He said, “I want to inform you about the arrest of a Nigerian man suspected to have killed a woman and her daughter in Nigeria and run to hide in Ghana to avoid the Nigeria Police arresting him.

“The suspect, Victor Benjamin Fejemirokum, was arrested based on an interception of a viral video which alleged that the suspect had abducted and murdered a lady who worked with the FRSC and her daughter in Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria.

“The suspect was wanted by the Nigerian Police but he ran to Ghana to hide with his friend at Akyem Wenchi, a suburb of Akwatia. The Eastern South Regional Police Command, on receipt of the information that the suspect was hiding in his friend’s house at Akwatia, quickly deployed an intelligence-led operation to arrest the suspect in his hideout.”

The Ghana Police said it was working on steps to repatriate the suspect to Nigeria.

“The suspect is currently in police custody and frantic efforts are underway to hand him over to the Nigerian authorities,” the police boss said.

39-year-old Lasisi Oluwamayokun and her teenage daughter were reported missing on the morning of Sunday, November 2, after they left their home at the Obasanjo Hilltop Estate, Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta, and never returned.

Lasisi Oluwamayokun, a Superintendent Route Commander, was a fourth-level senior operational officer in the FRSC hierarchy, responsible for overseeing multiple routes and coordinating strategic enforcement operations.

Several days after they had gone missing, a police investigation led to the recovery of their mutilated bodies at a suspected herbalist’s den in Osun. Following the discovery, the herbalist and some suspects were arrested, but the prime suspect remained on the run until his arrest in Ghana.

The Ogun State Police Commissioner, Lanre Ogunlowo, said the command had handed over the investigation to the Osun State Command and would be lending necessary support.