The Lagos State Police has arrested 19-year-old girl, Jemila Ibrahim, and her friend, Fatima Mohammed, 21, for setting ablaze the house of one Mohammed Yusuf and his girlfriend, Rabi.
According to the Spokesperson of the State Police Command, Muyiwa Adejobi, the incident happened on Wednesday, November 18.
He said the two set fire to the apartment occupied by Mohammed Yusuf at Monkey Village in the Festac area of Lagos.
Yusuf’s new girlfriend, Rabi, was trapped inside the apartment before she was rescued and rushed to a hospital for medical treatment, but she died three days later on November 21.
Mohammed told the Police he broke up with Ibrahim over her alleged infidelity, before he fell in love with the deceased Rabi.
Ibrahim and Mohammed were arrested by police officers attached to Satellite Division, and will soon be transferred to the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligent Department (SCIID), Panti.
The state’s Commissioner of Police, ordered that the case be thoroughly investigated so that justice can prevail.
He appealed to Lagosians to stop taking laws into their own hands.
He said Mohammed, an ex-lover to Jemila, had the hint of the incident and rushed to the house where he met his house on fire but managed to rescue Rabi, his new lover, from the inferno and took her to the hospital where she gave up the ghost on Saturday, November 21,2020.
