Operatives of State Police command have arrested a 34-year-old father, Monday Elela, for beating his son to death and burying him in a shallow grave alleging ‘habitual’ theft.
Elela, a bricklayer and farmer was said to have perpetrated the crime in Ajowa Akoko in connivance with his wife, who is now on the run.
Speaking, the suspect admitted beating the 14-year-old boy but denied killing the young boy, Tope Elela, but explained that the boy had been a regular visitor to police stations and Amotekun Corps cells due to constant theft, saying the boy had been embarrassing the family.
He said: “Out of my seven children, he has been the one giving us problems. All he did was break into people’s houses. He is known around where we live, and he has been arrested many times by the police, and he won’t change.
“The one he did last, it was Amotekun operatives who arrested him, and they took him into their custody. But while in the custody of the Amotekun corps, he escaped through the little opening created for air ventilation in the cell. He broke the iron bars and jumped the fence to escape.
“We were at home when the Amotekun people called us and said our son has escaped. We began to look for him along with some Amotekun men. But we later saw him where he had gone to hide, and we took him home.
“On getting home, we only spanked him with our hands for his wrongdoings and the embarrassment he had been causing the family. But we didn’t realise that he had already injured himself while with the Amotekun people.
“After we spanked him, he ate his food, took his bath, and went to sleep. It was at daybreak that we instructed his younger brother to wake him so that we could all go to the farm and it was when he didn’t respond that we realised that he’s died.
“I quickly rushed to where he was sleeping along with his mother, and we confirmed that he had already died. So, we took his body and buried it in our backyard. We didn’t kill him. He is number three among my children”.
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