Lagos suburb of Ayobo was on Sunday greeted with the gory
sight of a helpless mother whose face and skull was badly battered by her son
in his attempt to advance his cyber fraud business (yahoo, yahoo) to the
bloody or ritual level (yahoo plus),
reports ITREALMS.
According to Police source, the incident took place about
0830hrs on Sunday at No.2 Raji Ajanaku street, Alaja Road, Ayobo, Lagos, inside
the flat the suspect, Taiwo Akinola, age 29 years lived with his mother, Mrs
Alice Iyabo Akinola and her grandchild Master Faruk, age 14 years.
ITREALMS confirmed
that in a carefully thought out plans to kill his mother, Taiwo, said to be
staunch member of the notorious Aiye confraternity, went to the victim's provision store in front of their apartment
and told his mother to meet him inside the house for an important discussion
and at same time sent his nephew, Faruk to go buy him a white handkerchief and
a stick of cigarette.
As soon as the victim entered the house, the suspect
attacked her, smashing her head with a plank, pressing iron and a UPS charger
to ensure she didn't survive the ferocious attack.
When Faruk returned from the errand, he didn't see his
grandmother in the shop so he went into the house only to see the poor woman
lying in a pool of blood. Shocked by what he saw, the small boy raised the
alarm which attracted neighbours to the scene.
They called the Divisional Police Officer in charge of Ayobo
Division who arrived the scene with his team and promptly arrested the suspect
and secured the scene for further investigation by the police forensic experts
attached to the Homicide section SCIID Panti, Yaba .
The victim was rushed to an undisclosed hospital for
treatment and was found to be hanging onto life. Right now, the doctors are
battling to revive Mrs Alice Akinola presently unconscious . Meanwhile the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Imohimi Edgal, was reported to had paid the initial hospital cost which
enabled the doctors to commence treatment.
During a brief interrogation, the suspect disclosed that he
was asked to kill his mother in order to have more money. When his room was
searched, the following exhibits were recovered in it, viz:
1. Two calabashes with one containing human skull and the
other, a mixture of dark concoction;
2. A plank perforated with
nails and stained with blood;
3. A pressing iron stained with blood;
4. A white handkerchief with which he wanted to scoop the
victim's blood;
5. A bottle containing oil and labelled Back To Sender;
The Commissioner of Police, Mr. Imohimi Edgal calls on Lagosians to rise
against all forms of crime and criminality. He added that the Command defeated
the Badoo cult group with the help of
people who provided credible and timely
information to the police . He added that the time has come to root out
the street cult groups. He notes that complacency is not an option in the face
of threat to peace and security posed by
these nefarious associations.
*Correspondent/GEE
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