Ogun State Police Command has arrested a 21yrs old undergraduate, Tolani Ajayi, of Redeemers University at the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, for allegedly killing his father, Charles Ajayi, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria.
The incident, according to the police, occurred on Tuesday, July 3, at their residence on Canaanland Street in the premises of Redeemed Christian Church of God’s Redemption Camp.
Tolani was said to have slaughtered his father with a knife and later butchered him with a cutlass. Afterwards he allegedly packed his father’s remains in a box and dragged them into the bush within the camp...
According to Punch, the state Police Public Relations Officer, Muyiwa Adejobi, a Deputy Superintendent of Police, said the police recovered the remains of the 60-year-old lawyer in a bush along Canaanland Street.
He said, “The policemen who noticed the ground mark created by the box as Tolani dragged it, followed this lead which led them to the strange discovery.”
Tolani, a 300-level undergraduate in the Department of History and International Relations, was arrested same day in his late father’s residence after the discovery of the corpse and police preliminary findings.
“When the police got to deceased’s house, the suspect was in a relaxed mood. When interrogated, he lied that his dad had gone on evangelism, but eventually confessed to the crime when he was taken to the Redemption Camp Divisional headquarters.”
The suspect was said to have told police that problem arose when his dad confronted him for not responding to all the prayer points he (the deceased) was raising, adding that he (father) later slapped him.
He said he got angry and made a dash for the kitchen and picked up a knife, with which he stabbed his father, adding that he later used a cutlass on him.
It was leant that the police had recovered the knife and cutlass used in committing the crime. The Department of Criminal Investigation is now handling the case and the son may soon appear in court.
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