LAGOS, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- A 38-year-old man identified as Matthew Onadike who was recently arrested for macheting his octogenarian father to death, has said that he carried out the act to satisfy his father’s request.
Recall that Onadike , who was apprehended by the Ogun State Community and the So-Safe Corps, and handed over to Sango divisional headquarters of the State Police Command, said his deceased father, Pa Anthony Onadika, had told him severally that he wanted peace of mind, which he interpreted to mean the old man asking to be killed.
So-Safe Corps had in a statement, disclosed how its officers were informed of the suspect killing his biological father, by inflicting several machete cuts on his head.
Though the late father was rushed to a hospital, the doctor who attended to him on arrival at the hospital confirmed him dead.
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The suspect was said to have resisted arrest but was eventually taken into custody.
Upon preliminary investigation, the suspect claimed that it was his father’s refusal to give him the N70,000 he kept with him since 2022 that made him commit the murder.
He said his parents advised him to quit his job. However, after quitting his job, his parents refused to cater for him.
“I was working in a company at Ajao Estate. However, problem arose when my parents asked me to leave the job and come back home. In August 2021, my father came to where I was living in Oshodi, Lagos. He told me to give him rest by coming home.
“I was very angry because I didn’t understand why he wanted me to kill him. He ran as I pursued him to leave my room. I stopped going to our family’s residence in Sango, Ogun State, and whenever I was in that area, I avoided my father. If I saw him, I would take another way. I was seeing my mother only.
“One day, I came to see my mother and she told me to do my father’s bid. After some time, my father called my office and I observed some changes.
“In September 2021, my landlady also told me not to pay house rent again, asking me to move out. I was not owing the landlady any money but there used to be quarrels between me and other tenants. I lived in that house in Oshodi for eight years.
“My work place also started reducing the salary I was being paid. When I observed all the changes, I called my father and told him what I was experiencing. He said he had told me to pack my belongings and return home.
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“My brother came and assisted me in packing on December 31 that year. My father was not around when I got to our house, and when he came in, we hugged each other. He reminded me of what he discussed with me and we almost quarrelled again.
“In November 2022, I asked my father to give me the money with him for me to start selling robber footwear but he denied having my money. In January this year, I noticed that he truly wanted me to kill him. One day, I called my mother to discuss the negative trend in our family.
“She told me that she knew of my father’s request, saying that was why he didn’t want to give me my money, as an act of provocation. Later, she also denied my giving the money to my father. I was tired of sitting at home. I went to a bakery to work but my mother told the business owner to sack me. She said I should just be at home, saying that she would be taking care of my needs.
Speaking on the incident, the suspect disclosed, “On 28 August, I was in my room with the plantain I went to cut in our backyard farm. I wanted to sell it and use the money to feed. Unfortunately, I didn’t get any buyer. When I asked my mother for money to eat, she gave me N700.
“My father came home and saw that I had cut two bunches of plantain. He asked me why I did so without informing him. He threatened to pick a cutlass and cut down all the plantain trees. He said I should kill him like he had been telling me.
“We dragged the issue as I held him, but I later went to my room. While I was there, my father started banging on the door of my room, shouting that I should come out and kill him. That was when I picked the cutlass I used in cutting the plantain and started inflicting machete cuts on his head,” the suspect stated.
The State Police command, however, disclosed that the suspect will be arraigned in court as soon as investigation is completed.