A few weeks ago, precisely on the first on January, a 32 year old
Lagosian, Kayode Osikoya, murdered his mum, Madam Olubode, a former
street sweeper with the Lagos State Waste Management Authority (LAWMA).
According to the police, Kayode who had slept in the same room with
her 60-year-old mother woke up with a start, suddenly ran berserk and
reached for a nearby empty beer bottle and smashed it on her head.
He howevercame to his senses as he was confronted with the gory sight of his mum’s corpse ly¬ing stone-dead.
The suspect now being held at the state Police Command Headquarters,
Eleweran, Abeokuta said he could not have deliber¬ately carried out the
unprovoked deadly attack on his mother.
Kayode, who claimed to have been un¬dergoing treatment for mental
illness at a Psychiatric Hospital in Ijebu-Ode for over four years,
claimed he must have been hypnotized by certain evil forces to kill his
mother. He said he had never had any problem or disagreement with his
mother before the incident that claimed her life occurred.
Hear him:
“It happened in the morning of January 2. I did not deliber¬ately
hit the bottle on my mother’s head. May God not allow one to fall victim
of hypnotism. There was no disagreement or quarrel between us. She had
been the one taking care of me in the past four years. We ate and lived
together in the same room. My maternal grandfather built that house.
Honestly, I don’t know how the in¬cident occurred; I don’t know what
pushed me into hitting the bottle on my mother’s head that morning.
“I was not drunk and I don’t even take alcohol and I don’t smoke
Indian hemp. I was a spray painter, but I had to quit when I fell ill. I
had some mental problem and it was my mum that was taking me to a
hos¬pital in Ijebu-Ode where they treat people with mental illness. The
hospital is in the NTA area in Ijebu-Ode.
“It happened in the early morning. I cannot say this is what really
happened, it’s like I was hypnotized. The broken bottle injured me and
the family members had to tie my hands after they had taken me outside.
My two brothers brought me to Eleweran Police Command Headquarters. My
mum’s relations first took me to the police station immediately after
the incident.
I’m not married and I have no children. I have been undergoing
treatment for over four years now. After the incident occurred, I stayed
inside the room with my mummy’s corpse. I did not feel anyhow and by
daybreak, my mummy’s relation, Orlando Olubode, brought policemen from
Odogbolu Police Station and three days after, I was transferred to
Eleweran.”
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