What could have prompt a 21-year old
University Undergraduate student to kill his father, chopped the body into
pieces before dumping the remains in a bush near their home is a mystery or
puzzle yet to unravel.
Forlorn report reaching
liveschoolnews.com.ng news desk has it that, A 21-year old student of the
Departments of History and International Relations of Redeem University, RCCG
Camp Ogun State, Tolani Ajayi has been nabbed by the Ogun State Police Command
for allegedly killing his father on Tuesday 3 July.
The shattered body of Barrister
Charles Ajayi, 60, Senior Advocate of Nigeria, was recovered in a box at a
nearby bush at Canaanland Street at the Redeemed Christian Church of God Camp,
Km 46 Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.
The suspect who is a biological son
of the slain lawyer was arrested same day in his fathers residence, at the
scene of the incident, at about 5:30 p.m. after the discovery of the corpse and
Police preliminary findings.
Redemption Camp DPO, Olaiya Martins
who led a team of detectives and some members of the community traced ground
marks of the box from where it was dumped to the house of the suspect. The
corpse was traced to the house of late Barr. Ajayi,where they met the suspect
in a relaxed mood in the house.
Upon interrogation, the suspect who
had earlier lied that his dad had gone on evangelism, however, confessed to the
crime when he was taken to the Redemption Camp Divisional Headquarters.
He stated problem arose when his
father confronted him for not responding to all the prayer points he raised,
forcing his father to slap him. He said he went mad and went straight to the
kitchen to pick up a knife to stab him and later a cutlass to cut his throat.
The exhibits including the knife and
cutlass he used in killing his father had been recovered by the Police and the
corpse of the SAN had been deposited at a morgue in Sagamu.
Ikemefuna Okoye, Commissioner of
Police Ogun state has since sent a team of detectives led by the officer in
charge of Homicide section of the Department of Criminal Investigation,
Eleweran, Abeokuta to further investigate the murder.
Okoye sympathised with the family of
the deceased, particularly his wife, who is also a legal practitioner and other
children to take solace in the Lord. He admonished other members of the community
in RCCG to be watchful, adding that, such incident will not occur again as the
Command will improve on the synergy between the police and the Internal
Security Operatives of the RCCG.
What’s your opinion on this issue?
Should Tolani be pardoned, punished or rehabilitated?
Courtesy: liveschoolnews.com.ng
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