{"id":10725,"date":"2024-01-07T06:01:12","date_gmt":"2024-01-07T06:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/police-detain-couple-over-death-of-45-year-old-man-in-ogun\/"},"modified":"2024-01-07T06:01:12","modified_gmt":"2024-01-07T06:01:12","slug":"police-detain-couple-over-death-of-45-year-old-man-in-ogun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/police-detain-couple-over-death-of-45-year-old-man-in-ogun\/","title":{"rendered":"Police detain couple over death of 45-year-old man in Ogun"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Police Command in Ogun says a couple, Mba Moses and Florence Moses, have allegedly killed one Mark Kalu after the victim sustained injuries from a fight between them.<\/p>\n<p>This is contained in a statement signed by the spokesperson of the command, SP Omolola Odutola, and made available to newsmen in Abeokuta on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Odutola explained that the Divisional Police Officer in the Odeda area of the state, on Saturday at 7:00am received a report of the death of the 45-year-old man.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson said that the deceased sustained injuries during a fight that occurred on October 8, 2023, at Osiele market.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe altercation took place in the market square between the late Mark Kalu and a couple, Mba Moses, aged 50, and his wife, Florence, aged 40, leading to the death of Kalu,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEfforts were initially made by the Babaloja of Osiele and the Igbo Community Leader to mediate and find an amicable resolution but these failed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, the suspects have now been taken into custody for a preliminary investigation into the matter,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>She explained that the body of the deceased had been deposited at the mortuary of the Federal Medical Centre, Idi Aba, for autopsy.<\/p>\n<p>Police detain couple over death of 45-year-old man in Ogun<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Police Command in Ogun says a couple, Mba Moses and Florence Moses, have allegedly killed one Mark Kalu after&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[384,15,544,310],"tags":[387,180,547,99],"class_list":["post-10725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-metro","category-news","category-ogun","category-police","tag-metro","tag-news","tag-ogun","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}