Police arrest 18-year-old boy for murdering his father while he slept
In a shocking incident that occurred in Oyo State, an 18-year-old boy named Adeagbo Ismail was arrested for killing his father while he was asleep.
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.
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.
“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,” he said.
When it was around 6.00 a.m the next day, his mother woke him and his sister up to go and pray, and she went outside the compound to perform ablution to pray when she saw his 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,” he added.
According to the Command’s Public Relations Officer, Adewale Osifeso, the incident was reported by one Adeagbo Taofeek on April 21 at about 8.00 a.m at Tede Division Police Headquarters.
The suspect 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.
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