A truck driver Olalere Timileyin, and his conductor, have been arrested by operatives of the Ogun State Police Command for beating a man to death.
This was disclosed in a statement by the spokesperson for the Command, SP Omolola Odutola, on Saturday.
She noted that the driver and his boy had assaulted the deceased for allegedly stealing a tarpaulin.
Odutola stated that one Alao Fadipe of Iyana Ikereku at about 3 am on Friday, December 13, reported to the police how he saw some individuals fighting on the road in front of his house.
Fadipe reportedly told the police that upon getting to the scene, he observed that Timileyin, a truck driver and his motor-boy associated with a cement factory in Itori, Ewekoro Local Government Area of the state were allegedly assaulting a man for stealing tarpaulin until he lost consciousness.
