A 21-year old university undergraduate, Tolani Ajayi, has killed his
father, chopped the body to pieces, before dumping the remains in a bush
near their home in Ogun State, the police said.
The suspect has since been arrested by the Ogun State Police Command.
The attack occurred Tuesday after
an argument between Tolaniand his father, Charles Ajayi, a Senior
Advocate of Nigeria, SAN.
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.
“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.
The corpse was traced to the house of late Barr.
Ajayi,where they met the suspect in a relaxed mood in the house.
Upon
interrogation, the suspect a Redeemers’ Varsity student, who had earlier lied that his dad had gone
on evangelism, however, confessed to the crime when he was taken to the
Redemption Camp Divisional Headquarters.
He stated problem arose
when his father confronted him for not responding to all the prayer
points he raised, forcing his father to slap him. He said he went mad
and went straight to the kitchen to pick up a knife to stab him and
later a cutlass to cut his throat.
The exhibits including the
knife and cutlass he used in killing his father had been recovered by
the Police and the corpse of the SAN had been deposited at a morgue in
Sagamu.
Ikemefuna Okoye, Commissioner of Police Ogun state has
since sent a team of detectives led by the officer in charge of Homicide
section of the Department of Criminal Investigation, Eleweran, Abeokuta
to further investigate the murder.
Okoye sympathised with the
family of the deceased, particularly his wife, who is also a legal
practitioner and other children to take solace in the Lord. He
admonished other members of the community in RCCG to be watchful, adding
that, such incident will not occur again as the Command will improve on
the synergy between the police and the Internal Security Operatives of
the RCCG.