RESIDENTS of Ibadan, Oyo State, were recently stunned on a Sunday
afternoon when a young man, Adekunle Musiliu Tajudeen, macheted his
grandmother; Madam Olalonpe Ganiyu and her brother, Pa Busari Ogundeji,
to death at N4/204, Ile-Aloko, Yemetu, Adeoyo,Ibadan.
Adekunle,
Crime & Security gathered from residents, had mental challenges and
in a reaction that gave a clue to his mental state, the 33-year-old,
said he killed his grandmother over her insistence on him to barb his
hair.
He said “Mama told me to go and barb my hair and I said no,
that I was not ready to do so. She continued pressurising me to still go
ahead. I told her that I was not ready to barb it because I wanted to
grow it to a dreadlock level and considered the hair as myself which I’m
not ready to cut. I told her that 'that hair is me that you want me to
cut' but she never listened to me. So, when the pressure was too much
for me to bear, I went for one of the cutlasses that we used to peel yam
and cut firewood in the house.
“I used the cutlass on her and
when I was done, grandpa, her brother,(Busari Ogundeji), came into the
house and threatened me that if he collected that cutlass in my hands I
should consider myself dead. At that point, I knew that if I gave him
the cutlass or he collected it, I would die, then, I had to attack him,”
Adekunle told Crime & Security.
The unremorseful Adekunle
said only God knew how many people would have been affected if not that
people used wood to forcefully collect the cutlass from him. Revealing
many wounds on him, he said “People wouldn’t have overpowered me because
at that point, I saw that cutlass as the only thing that could save me
from death. I was beaten with wood and planks before they collected the
cutlass from me,” he said.
On the third person, Iya Eleko, that
was said to have also been injured from his attack, he said he could
remember if any other person was affected on that day. "I can’t remember
if there was any other person but I know I attacked two people; grandma
and her brother,” he stressed.
It would be recalled that Madam
Olalonpe Ganiyu, 120, and Pa Busari Ogundeji, 140, were on Sunday
October 16, 2012 murdered by Adekunle Musiliu Tajudeen at their
Yemetu-Adeoyo residence, Ibadan.
Adekunle, who revealed that he
was into the sale of power generating sets, said he had never smoked
Indian hemp in his life. He is currently under investigation at the
Criminal Investigation Department (CID), Iyaganku, Oyo State.
what a pitty for them
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