The Ogun State Police Command has arrested 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 said 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, said the police later recovered the remains
of the 60-year-old lawyer in a bush along
Canaanland Street.
He said, “The policemen who noticed the ground
mark created by the box as Tolani dragged it,
followed this lead which led them to the strange
discovery.”
He said Tolani, a 300-level undergraduate in the
Department of History and International Relations,
was arrested the same day in his late father’s
residence after the discovery of the corpse and
police preliminary findings.
Adejobi added 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 noticed the strange attitude of the suspect
while dumping the box.
He said, “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 lied that his
dad had gone on evangelism, but he eventually
confessed to the crime when he was taken to the
Redemption Camp Divisional headquarters.”
The suspect was said to have told policemen that
problem arose when his late father confronted him
for not responding to all the prayer points he (the
deceased) was raising, adding that he (father) later
slapped him.
He said he got angry and made a dash for the
kitchen and picked up a knife, with which he
stabbed his father, adding that he later used a
cutlass on him.
It was leant that the police had recovered the knife
and cutlass used in committing the alleged crime.
Adejobi told our correspondent that the Charles’
corpse had been deposited at a morgue in the
Sagamu area of the state.
PUNCH Metro gathered 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 necessary action.
SOURCE: http://saharareporters.com/2014/07/06/varsity-student-kills-father-redeem-church-god-over-prayer-punch-newspaper