An 18-year-old boy,
Olanrewaju Kayode-Aremu, who was recently arrested by the Lagos State Police
Command for stabbing his 46-year-old father, Victor Kayode-Aremu, to death has
said he does not regret his action.
The native of Kwara State
added that he decided to stab his father to death because he could not lay his
hands on poison or a gun which he would have used to kill his father
PUNCH Metro had reported that the suspect stabbed his father to death
at their home located at Langbasa in Ajah.
It had also been reported
that the suspect was a Geology student of the University of Ilorin, Kwara
State, but was asked to leave the school due to his poor grades.
The suspect, who is
currently being detained at the state Criminal Investigation Department, Yaba,
said he killed his father for many reasons.
He said killing his father
was a mistake but he still had no regrets.
Olarenwaju said one of the
reasons why he killed his father was that his father forced him to study
Geology even though he did not like the course.
He said, “My father used to
maltreat me and my mother was aware of this. Sometimes he would not give me
food or money. He sent me to University of Ilorin but I did not get the course
I wanted. I was admitted to study Geology but I wanted to study Biochemistry.
“My father forced me to go
to the school and after I failed, the school asked me to leave. I started working
with my father afterwards and I used to follow him to work. He did not want to
send me to school anymore.”
Narrating what happened on
the day he killed his father, Olanrewaju said he had complained to his parents
that he was not feeling too well but they had ignored him.
He said it was in the usual
behaviour of his father to maltreat him, adding that he decided to vent his
anger on his father
He said, “On that day that I
killed my father, I was ill and I told my parents but they ignored me. I do not
really know what came over me. I took a knife and followed my father upstairs
and stabbed him repeatedly. He ran downstairs and I chased him downstairs and
stabbed him once more.
“My mother saw me when I
stabbed him to death but she did nothing.”
Asked why he decided to kill
his father in such a gruesome manner, he said, “I could not get poison or a
gun. That was why I stabbed him.”
Olanrewaju, who is the first
of five children, said his father married a second wife and this had strained
the good relationship the family once had.
He said on several
occasions, his father had sent him out of the house because he hated him,
stressing that he had reported to relatives but no one ever listened to him.
Olanrewaju said he killed
his father because he believed he would not be arrested due to his young age.
He said he thought the murder would be treated as a family affair.
He lamented that since his
arrest, family members, including his mother, had refused to visit him.
He said, “My mother has not
come to visit me since I was arrested. I want her to get me a lawyer. I am
still very young. I killed him because I wanted to be free. I did not know I
would be arrested. I thought nothing would ever happen to me.
“I am not happy in detention
and I want the police to release me; I have suffered enough. I am not happy in
the cell.”
SOURCE: PUNCH
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