The Ondo State Police Public Relation Officer, Mrs Funmilayo Odunlami, said that the command would soon arrest the suspect.
The Nigeria Police Force, Ondo State command, has launched a search party for a woman, Tayeolu Solomon, who allegedly used a pestle to kill her 67-year-old husband, Felix Solomon in the state.
The Ondo State Police Public Relation Officer, Mrs Funmilayo Odunlami, said that the command would soon arrest the suspect.
The police spokesperson said the deceased was quickly rushed to the hospital where he gave up the ghost.
Odunlami said, “The incident happened last week when the couple had a fight but the suspect is currently at large. We are already on her trail.”
Tayelolu, who was said to have been having a protracted crisis with her husband, reportedly hit him with a pestle on Saturday at the GRA area of Ondo town, the State capital when the husband was asleep.
The son of the deceased, Ibukun Solomon, who witnessed the incident, confirmed that his mother allegedly hit his father's head with the pestle while he was sleeping and ran away, adding that his parents had quarrelled some hours earlier before the incident.
Ibukun was quoted as saying, “My mother killed my father with a pestle in my presence and took to her heels. She used the pestle to hit his head when he was asleep.
“Earlier on the fateful day, a minor argument had ensued between them that resulted in a fight. After the fight, my father went to lie on the chair and my mother hit his head with the pestle.
“He became unconscious in the process and fell down from where he was sleeping. My mother used the pestle to hit my father’s head three times and he later died.
“When my mother saw that my father was already unconscious, she hid the pestle at the back of our house and ran away. I alerted some of the residents, who rushed my father to the hospital.
“But he later died. His corpse has been deposited at the morgue. My mother had three children for my father and I’m the last child.”