63 suspects were yesterday
paraded by the Edo State Police Command in Benin. The paraded persons
include suspected armed robbers , child defilers and murderers,
including a 25-year-old boy
who murdered his father
after a quarrel over a stick
of cigarette he stole from
his father. The 25-year-old identified as
Best Momodu, an indigene
of Etsako West Local
Government Area of Edo
State confessed to the police
that he killed his father in anger after he stole a stick
of cigarette from him. “I stole his cigarette and he
found out. So he started
shouting at me and
quarrelling. So, mistakenly I
took a knife and stabbed
him. I have not seen the dead body but I heard he
died. But the community
people arrested me after I
killed him.” Commissioner of Police,
Foluso Adebanjo, who
paraded the suspects,
admonished residents of the
state to be vigilant
particularly at the airports, crowded places,
uncompleted buildings and
to monitor their
environments. He declared that the police
in the state had put up
strategies to curb crime this
ember months.
The CP also raised alarm
over increasing number of cases of child defilers in the
state and urged parents to
be watchful, saying the
activities of child defilers
are not only worrisome but
wicked. “This is the beginning of the
ember months, these are
times criminals will want to
reap where they did not
sow. I want to thank the
people of the state for their cooperation and I urge for
continued partnership
between the police and the
public. “If you observe anything
around, report to the police,
monitor all uncompleted
buildings because that is
where criminals hide.”www.pijango..com.es/2014/09/man-kills-father-over-stick-of.html?m=1