Amotekun corps arrest father of 3 for starving his children to death
Operatives of the Ogun State security outfit, Amotekun, have arrested Mr Gbenga Ogunfadeke, a father of three for deliberately starving his two children in solitary confinement leading to their death in the Waterside Local Government Area (LGA), in the state.
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Confirming the arrest of Mr Ogunfadeke, 45, the Ogun State commander of Amotekun, David Akinremi, in a statement available to the press said the father had accused his children between the age 16 and 18 of sealing and he chained and locked them in solitary confinement, without food and water for over three months to serve as a punishment for their actions and in the process, the two children died.
The state commander disclosed that the suspect started maltreating the children since he took custody of them, following his crashed marriage with their mother, Busola Otusegun.
The suspect was said to have been arrested after a complaint by his ex-wife who was informed by the third child who miraculously escape.
“One of the three children came across his aunty in Ibiade where he currently lives with his father (suspect) and narrated their experience with their father which led to the death of his two elder siblings between April and June, 2022 in Ijebu-Ode where they were all living with the suspect until he relocated back to Ibiade,” the Amotekun commandant said.
The commander stated that the suspect, when interrogated, admitted to the alleged confinement of the children for months, but denied depriving them of food and being responsible for their death.
The suspect, however claimed that the two deceased children were taken to hospital for treatment at different times when they fell ill, but unfortunately died in the process but based on findings by the security outfit, the said hospital which the father claimed to have taken children to could not be found.
“What is however curious about his defence is that the hospital where he claimed the two children died in Ijebu Ode could neither be located nor where he allegedly buried them behind a rented apartment he lived in Ijebu-Ode before relocating to his present abode in Ibiade with the third child for possible exhumation be traced.
“The fact that he refused to make the incidents known to any member of the family also gives course for concern more so when the suspect is a herbalist, thus further fuelling the suspicion of having killed the deceased for possible rituals,” Akinremi added.
The case has reportedly been transferred to the state police command Criminal Investigation Department (CID) for further investigation with a view to establishing further facts that will facilitate the suspect’s prosecution of the suspect.
