Children strangulate octogenarian father over land proceeds

By Ademola Oni, Abeokuta


Two children of a 75-year-old man on Monday in Abeokuta strangulated their father, owing to their displeasure over the sharing formula of the of the proceeds from the sale of land.



The suspects, Seun, popularly called President, and Seye, who are now being detained at the state police command, allegedly killed their father, Pa Timothy Ogunbayo, with a rope tied around his neck in the man‘s room at Tekobo, Abeokuta.

The late Ogunbayo was said to have sold a land in Ibafo town, on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, and had shared the money among his four children.

Seun and Seye were said to be dissatisfied with the sharing formula employed by their father.
The deceased was said to have returned home after hawking his herbal products in the community on Monday when the children confronted him and demanded more of the proceeds.

Our correspondent learnt that Seun, who owns a barbing salon in front of the father‘s house, contacted his brother on the telephone, informing him of the arrival of their father.

They were said to have met the man, who was having his lunch of fried yam in his eight-room apartment.

Seun and Seye, after listening to the father that he had used the rest of the money to buy materials for the renovation of the house, wrestled Pa Ogunbayo to the ground, tied rope around his neck and ensured the old man breathed his last before dropping his lifeless body in his room.

Residents, however, suspected that something had gone wrong when the movements of the brothers became uncoordinated and raised the alarm.

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There is nothing poverty cannot do. Why kill an old man/your father over common land? The kind of crimes men commit in Nigeria baffles me atimes. No woman will kill a parent over material things.

So it's now a gender issue. What if the method the accused used in killing their father wasn't by strangellation? would u have a different opinion?
I think u should stick with the poverty line as only that can drive peeps to such barbaric crime

Needlelady:

There is nothing poverty cannot do. Why kill an old man/your father over common land? The kind of crimes men commit in Nigeria baffles me atimes. No woman will kill a parent over material things.

Please don't speak too soon, gender is not the issue, infact, there are crimes some women have commited that are far more worse.