The Ogun State Police Command has apprehended a 21-year-old undergraduate, Tolani Ajayi, of Redeemers University along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, for allegedly killing his father, Mr. Charles Ajayi, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria.
The incident, according to the police, occurred on Tuesday, July 3, at their residence on Canaanland Street within the Redeemed Christian Church of God’s Redemption Camp.
Tolani was verbally expressed to have slaughtered his father with a knife and later butchered him with a cutlass.
PUNCH Metro learnt that Tolani afterwards allegedly packed his father’s remains in a box and dragged them into the bush within the camp.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Muyiwa Adejobi, a Deputy Superintendent of Police, verbally expressed the police later recuperated the remains of the 60-year-old lawyer in a bush along Canaanland Street.
He verbally expressed, “The policemen who descried the ground mark engendered by the box as Tolani dragged it, followed this lead which led them to the peculiar revelation.”
He verbalized Tolani, a 300-level undergraduate in the Department of History and International Relations, was apprehended the same day in his tardy father’s residence after the revelation of the corpse and police preliminary findings.
Adejobi integrated that the Divisional Police Officer of the Redemption Camp Police Station, Olaiya Martins, a Superintendent of Police, had led a team of detectives and some members of the community who descried the outlandish posture of the suspect while dumping the box.
He verbally expressed, “They traced the ground marks made by the box to the point where the body of the SAN was dumped and thereafter traced the mark to the house of the deceased.
“When the police got to deceased’s house, the suspect was in a relaxed mood.
“When interrogated, the suspect earlier prevaricated that his dad had gone on evangelism, but he eventually confessed to the malefaction when he was taken to the Redemption Camp Divisional headquarters.”
The suspect was verbally expressed to have told policemen that quandary arose when his tardy father confronted him for not responding to all the prayer points he (the deceased) was raising, integrating that he (father) later slapped him.
He verbally expressed he got exasperated and made a dash for the kitchen and picked up a knife, with which he stabbed his father, integrating that he later utilized a cutlass on him.
It was leant that the police had recuperated the knife and cutlass utilized in committing the alleged malefaction.
Adejobi told our correspondent that the Charles’ corpse had been deposited at a morgue in the Sagamu area of the state.
PUNCH Metro accumulated that the state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Ikemefuna Okoye, had transferred the matter to the Department of Criminal Investigation Eleweran, Abeokuta, for further investigation and obligatory action.