A 22-year-old student, Oluwaropo Tifase, has been arrested by the
Lagos state police command, for killing his 75 year old father, Moses
Tifase, in the Mile 2 area of the state.
According to reports, Oluwaropo, a suspected cultist, who was
rusticated from a university in Ondo State, a few years ago for some
cult-related offences, is the fifth child and only son of the family.
He had had clashes with his parents in the past over financial
issues, only to stab his father, a retired mechanical engineer, in the
neck with a pair of scissors.
It was learnt that Oluwaropo allegedly sneaked into his father’s bedroom to carry out the act on December 6.
In her statement to the police, Oluwaropo’s mother, Funmilayo, said
“Oluwaropo is our last child and son. He has four sisters. He and his
immediate elder sister stay with us in the house. The elderly ones have
got married and left. He usually slept in my room. On the evening before
that incident, I told him to go and lock our door. He did that and we
all slept.
“But when I woke up at dawn, I discovered he was no longer in my
room. When I came to the sitting room, I did not find him either. After a
while, I heard footsteps in the passage, and it was him. He was shocked
to find me in the sitting room. I asked him where he was coming from;
he said he heard some strange footsteps and went to check who it was,
but he found nothing.
“The mistake I made was that I did not check his father’s room at
that time. It was in the morning that we discovered that Moses had been
killed in his room, and surprisingly, our house was not broken into.”
Our correspondent learnt that the neighbours reported the incident at
the FESTAC Police Division. The police arrested the three family
members –Funmilayo, Oluwaropo and his sister– for questioning.
PUNCH Metro gathered that preliminary police investigations
showed that Moses was killed by his son ─ Oluwaropo. However, it was
learnt that the suspect had yet to confess to the crime.
It was learnt that Moses had returned from Nasarawa State, where he worked, to Lagos around July this year.
The family reportedly put pressure on their father to come back to Lagos as his work was not going smoothly over there.
When our correspondent visited the family’s apartment on Monday, the
doors were locked and dusty. A neighbour, who craved anonymity, told our
correspondent that since the incident, the family had not been seen in
the apartment.
She said, “The boy had always been rude. The way he usually argued with his aged parents was baffling.
“Since he was rusticated from school, he had been doing some casual
work at a warehouse in Apapa. Then on the fateful day, the shocking
incident happened.
“Since that time, the police arrested all the family. I have not noticed anyone in the apartment ever since.”
The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Kenneth Nwosu, confirmed the arrest.
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