Tolani
Ajayi, 21, a university undergraduate has killed his father, chopped the body
to bits, before dumping the remains in a bush near their home in Ogun State,
the police said.
A witness
reprted that the attack occurred Tuesday after an argument between Tolani and
his father, Charles Ajayi, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN. The late lawyer
had reportedly questioned his son over his attitude and refusal to follow
Biblical teachings and not responding to his prayer points.
The suspect,
a 300-level student of the Department of History and International Relations at
Redeemer University, RCCG Camp, Ogun State, became infuriated when his father slapped
him.
Tolani
retaliated by stabbing his father with a knife. He then hacked the body to
pieces, packed the mutilated corpse in a box and dumped it in a nearby bush.
The Ogun
State Police Command Public Relations Officer, Muyiwa Adejobi, confirmed the
incident which he said occurred at the Redemption Camp along the Lagos/Ibadan Expressway. continue
“The
shattered body of Barrister Charles Ajayi, 60, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria,
was seen and recovered in a nearby bush at Canaanland Street in the RCCG Camp,
in a box after he had been killed by his son,” Mr. Adejobi said.
He said
Tolani, the suspect, was arrested at his father’s home after the corpse was
discovered.
Mr. Adejobi
said that the Divisional Police Officer of Redemption Camp, Olaiya Martins, had
led a team of detectives and some members of the community to where the body
was found. The community members had earlier noticed the strange attitude of
the suspect while he dumped the box.
Following
the drag marks made by the box, police officers traced the suspect to his home.
Mr. Adejobi
said upon interrogation, the suspect lied that his father had gone on
evangelism. He later confessed to the crime, Mr. Adejobi said.
He said the
exhibits, including the knife and cutlass the suspect used in the attack, were
recovered by the police while the corpse had been deposited at a morgue in
Sagamu.
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