Why I had to murder my father while he was sleeping, says an 18-year-old son

A shocking incident occurred in Oyo, as an 18-year-old boy named Adeagbo Ismail was arrested for killing his father while he was asleep....CONTINUE READING

Ismail, who was paraded with his mother at the Police Command Headquarters, Eleyele, Ibadan, claimed that he didn’t know what made him commit the heinous act…..CONTINUE READING

He stated that his father, Adeagbo Jimoh, had not done anything wrong to him, and he just woke up around 11.00 pm on the day of the incident and hit his father’s head with an iron rod, leading to his death.

He said::”On that day, all of us were sleeping in the house with my father, I woke up around 11.00 p.m and I went straight to where my father was sleeping and I picked an iron rod and hit it on his head and I went back to sleep.”

“When it was around 6.00 a.m the next day, my mother woke me and my sister up to go and pray, she also went outside the compound to perform ablution to pray when she saw my father dead on the floor.

“My mother called all of us out to come and see that my father was dead, I immediately took a motorcycle and went out to inform our relatives about the death of my father and the police were informed about the incident.”

“When the police arrived in our compound, I ran inside the house and hide under the bed and everybody started looking for me.”

“My mother later came inside and saw me under the bed and ask whether I was the one that killed my father and I said yes.”

“My father did not offend me and nobody sent me to kill him. My father do take care of us and as well pay our school fees, but he use to beat my mother and I don’t use to talk,” the suspect said.

The Command’s Public Relations Officer, Adewale Osifeso, revealed that the incident was reported by one Adeagbo Taofeek on April 21 at about 8.00 a.m at Tede Division Police Headquarters.

The suspect has voluntarily confessed to the crime, and further confessed that his mother was aware of the murder and concealed the information.

The police also paraded 23 other suspects for various crimes, including armed robbery, impersonation, attempted kidnapping, hijacking, and diversion of a truck loaded with goods worth millions of naira.

The items recovered from all the suspects included one DAF Truck with Reg No. ZUR 438 YL loaded with bags of wheatmeal, one unregistered DAF Truck, one Toyota Camry car, one Toyota Corolla car, three Bajaj motorcycles, a cutlass, and an iron rod…..CONTINUE READING