Police Command in Kwara State has paraded a suspected 23-year-old boy who allegedly strangled his father to death at Ajibesin area, along Okolowo Ilorin, Kwara State.
The Police Command Spokesperson SP Okasanmi Ajayi disclosed this in a statement signed and issued to newsmen in Ilorin Kwara State.
The statement reads in part, “On 5/8/2022, one Aishat Ibrahim ‘F’ reported a case of missing person (her father) one Sabi Ibrahim ‘M’ a-90year old retired army corporal to the police Command, the circumstances of his disappearance elicited suspicion hence the resolve of the Command to get to the root of it.
Investigation into the matter led to the arrest of one Ibrahim Hassan ‘M’ a biological son of the missing old man.
During investigation, the suspect confessed to have administered paracetamol injection mixed with other substances on his father, who became weak and dizzy immediately after the injection, this he did after coming from the bank where he took his father to renew and collect his ATM card, took the father on a motorcycle he borrowed to convey his father to an isolated uncompleted building and strangled his father to death. He thereafter dug a shallow grave where he buried his father after dispossessing him of the Wema Bank ATM card they went to the bank to collect.
“He escaped to Kaduna state and started withdrawing from his late father’s account, he withdrew a total sum of #59,000. He stated further that the purpose of killing his father was to dispossess him of the ATM card since he already know the pin. He also sold the borrowed motorcycle and eloped to Kaduna state where he was eventually arrested.
The ATM card and the stolen motorcycle have been recovered.
Suspect would soon be charged to court.” The statement concluded.
