A 25-year-old man, Yinusa Abdulahi Jonah and his 20-years-old girlfriend, Salma Peace Danladi, who allegedly murdered their Chinese employer in on Ogun State and fled to Plateau State have been arrested.
Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO), Assistant Commissioner of Police Olumuyiwa Adejobi who announced the arrest of the suspects in a statement on Tuesday, said they had earlier been declared by the Ogun State Police Command over the murder of a Chinese national, Chen Wang, who was a their employer at WH Great Resource Limited, Ogere, Ogun State.
Adejobi said Jonah and Danladi were involved in the murder of Wang on January 12, 2025, and had fled following a report lodged at the Ogere Divisional Police Headquarters.
The Force spokesman said that according to the distress call from the company, officers who visited the scene discovered Wang’s lifeless body with visible stab wounds to the chest.
“Preliminary investigations revealed that two factory workers, Yinusa Abdulahi Jonah, 25, and Salma Peace Danladi, 20, believed to be lovers, took advantage of the reduced number of staff on duty that day to kill Wang,” Adejobi said.
“While on overtime duty, Jonah, who is from Borno State, and Danladi, from Taraba State, deliberately deactivated the company’s security systems, gained unauthorised access to his office, and stole the keys to his residence from his pocket.
“They later broke into his home and made away with an undisclosed sum of money before fleeing the state. After months of intelligence-led investigation, a team from the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), Eleweran, Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, cracked the crime and arrested the suspects on July 14, 2025 in Plateau State, where they had been hiding under false identities,” the police image maker said.
