A 34-year-old father of seven, Monday Elela, has been arrested by operatives of the Ondo State Police Command for allegedly killing and burying his son in a shallow grave over ‘recurring’ theft.
Elela, a bricklayer and farmer, in connivance along with his spouse, who’s on the run, purportedly dedicated the crime at their residence within the Ajowa Akoko axis of the state.
Whereas being paraded together with some suspected criminals on the state headquarters of the Nigerian Police in Akure, the state capital, the suspect, who admitted to beating his deceased son, denied killing him.
In keeping with him, his deceased 14-year-old son, Tope Elela, had been a daily customer to police stations and Amotekun Corps cells as a consequence of fixed theft that had been embarrassing the household.
He stated: “Out of my seven kids, he has been the one giving us issues. All he did was break into individuals’s homes. He’s identified round the place we stay, and he has been arrested many instances by the police, however he gained’t change.
“The final time he did it, Amotekun operatives arrested him, and so they took him into their custody. However whereas within the custody of the Amotekun corps, he escaped via a bit of opening created for air air flow within the cell. He broke the iron bars and jumped the fence to flee.
“We had been at residence when the Amotekun individuals known as us and stated our son had escaped. We started to search for him together with some Amotekun males. However we later discovered him the place he had gone to cover, and we took him residence.
“On getting residence, we solely spanked him with our arms for his wrongdoings and the embarrassment he had been inflicting us. However we didn’t understand that he was already injured whereas with the Amotekun individuals. After we spanked him, he ate his meals, took his tub, and went to sleep. It was at dawn that we instructed his youthful brother to wake him in order that we may all go to the farm. It was when he didn’t reply that we realized he had died.
“I shortly rushed to the place he was sleeping alongside along with his mom, and we confirmed that he had already died. So, we took his physique and buried it in our yard. We didn’t kill him. He’s quantity three amongst my kids.”
In the meantime, the Commissioner of Police, Wilfred Afolabi, has disclosed that some individuals on the needed listing of the police had been arrested in reference to final week’s cult-related clashes in Owo, headquarters of the Owo Native Council Space of the state.
Whereas figuring out the suspects as Adeola Bero and Olabode Ojo, often known as “Popo”, the police commissioner stated, “The duo of Bero Adeola, ‘M’, age 30 years, and Olabode Ojo, ‘M’, age 30 years (a.okay.a. Paw Paw), who claimed his brother’s spouse and baby had been killed within the melee, was arrested of their hideout in Akure.
“They each confessed to being cultists belonging to the Ave group and claimed it was the Eiye and Aiye teams that had been combating. The suspects claimed they left Owo due to the battle as a result of they didn’t wish to be a part of it.”
