A 19-year-old lady, Jemila Ibrahim and her friend, Fatima Mohammed (21) have been arrested by Lagos State Police Command, for allegedly setting the room of her ex-lover, one Mohammed Yusuf, and his girlfriend, Ravi on fire.
The new girlfriend succumbed to her injuries, as she died three days after the incident.
The fire was said to have been ignited on Wednesday, November 18, 2020, at about 5:30p.m.
Both Yusuf and Ibrahim reside at Monkey Village, Festac Town area of the state.
Disclosing this in a statement, the state Police Public Relations Officer, SP Olumuyiwa Adejobi said that Yusuf rushed to his place of abode after receiving a hint of Ibrahim’s action, and managed to rescue his girlfriend from the fire.
He was said to have immediately rushed her to a hospital for treatment, but the girlfriend succumbed to death on Saturday, November 21, at about 12 noon, as a result of third degree burns she sustained.
Reporters At Large learnt that Mohammed had accused his former lover of infidelity before they broke up, and later met and fell in love with Rabi that was caught up in the inferno.
The PPRO said that Ibrahim was accompanied by her friend, Mohammed, to commit the act.
Adejobi stated further that the two suspects were apprehended by police operatives attached to Satellite Division of the command.
He added that the state Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, had ordered the case to be transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department, Panti, for discreet investigation.
The Commissioner of Police, who condemned the act, also vowed to go after those who engage in crime and social vices, to rid the state of criminality.
Odumosu advised Lagos residents avoid taking laws into their hands; noting that jungle justice would only truncate the administration of justice and would be counterproductive.
