I PUSHED MY FATHER TO DEATH, SUSPECT TELLS POLICE

The suspect, who claimed that his mother died some years ago, said he did not intend to kill his septuagenarian father, but in the course of a heated argument between them,  he  in annoyance  pushed his father on the chest and he fell down the staircase from their storey building and died in the process.

“On that day, I went upstairs to meet him. He had dressed up and was about to leave for an outing. I pushed him. Since I was born, I never fought him. The only thing we used to fight on was the way he used to drink to stupor. But on that day, I just went upstairs and I pushed him. He fell on the staircase and rolled down. My mother is dead. She died many years ago.”

Penpushing further reports that, elder brother of the suspect, Taoheed, 41, and another brother Murtala, 36, said they  were not at the scene when the incident occurred, but they received a call that Ibrahim and their father were fighting and the old man had died.

“I was at a site when I received the call and I rushed to my father’s house. On getting there, I discovered that it was true that my father had died. So, I informed my father’s younger sibling about the development and he told me that he was at Adeoyo Hospital. About one hour later, he called me that he could not come and that we children of the deceased should organise for his burial’.

“Our father was a Muslim and we invited Islamic clerics that conducted a brief funeral service in our house and therefore we buried him within the compound. But somebody we did not know reported the matter to the police and a few days after the burial, the three of us were arrested by the police. Apart from Ibarahim, myself and Muritala were arrested because we did not report the matter to the police.”