Police Parades 18-Year-Old For Killing His Father

The suspect, who was being paraded by the Police Command in Oyo State at its Headquarters, Eleyele, Ibadan, alongside his 47-year-old mother, confessed on Friday.

He claimed that despite the fact that my father, Adeagbo Jimoh, 52, had done nothing wrong to me, I had no idea what had driven me to kill him.

He said that his father did not offend him and that, on the night of the incident, he just woke up at midnight and killed himself by hitting his head on an iron rod while he was sleeping.

“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.

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

Osifeso said that the deceased was found lying dead where he was sleeping inside the compound with a serious mark of violence on his forehead.

The PPRO said that preliminary investigation showed that the suspect on April 21 at about 11.30 p.m struck his late father on the head with an iron rod where he was sleeping leading to his death.

According to Osifeso, the suspect has voluntarily confessed to the crime and further confessed that his mother was aware that he killed his father and concealed the information.