Man Narrates How He Killed His 72-Year-Old Father

Forty-one suspected criminals were paraded by the Oyo State Police Command, on Thursday, including a man identified as Ibrahim Isiaka, who was paraded for allegedly murdering his father.

The 32-year-old who resides in the Alagbaka area of Ashi claimed that he did not have the intention of killing his father, Busari Isiaka.

Ibrahim noted that he was engaged in an argument with his father and in annoyance, he pushed his 72-year-old father in the chest from a storey building and Busari fell on the staircase and died in the process.

The suspect when questioned on why he pushed his father, he said, “On the day of the incident, I went upstairs to meet him.”

“He had dressed up and was about to leave for an outing. I pushed him.”

“Before then, I had not been fighting him. The only thing we used to argue about was the way he was drinking to a stupor. But on that day, I just went upstairs and I pushed him. He fell on the staircase and rolled down.”

When asked about his mother, Ibrahim said, “My mother is dead. She died many years ago.”

The brother of the victim, Taoheed, while speaking with newsmen stated that he and his siblings, Murtala, were not at the scene of the incident, but received calls that Ibrahim and their father were fighting and that the old man had died.

Taoheed stated, “I was at a site when I got the call and I rushed down 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 sibling about the development and he told me that he was at the Adeoyo State Hospital.”

“About one hour later, he called me that he could not come and that the children should organise his burial.”

“Our father was a Muslim and we invited Islamic clerics, who conducted a brief funeral service for him and he was buried within the compound.”

“But an unknown person reported the matter to the Police and a few days after the burial, three of us were arrested by the police.”

“Apart from Ibrahim, Muritala and I were arrested for not reporting the matter to the police.”

The Commissioner of Police in the state, Shina Olukolu, paraded Ibrahim alongside 40 others for kidnapping, armed robbery, murder, conspiracy and cultism.

Olukolu explained that Ibrahim killed his father on November 11, 2019, around noon and the incident was reported at the Ashi Divisional Police Headquarters around 6 pm on the same day.

The CP said, “His two brothers immediately raced to their father’s house and prepared his corpse for burial without reporting to the police in order to conceal the heinous crime perpetrated by their brother, Ibrahim. Their father, Busari Isiaka, was hurriedly buried the same day.”

“Ibrahim Isiaka was thereafter arrested along with his two brothers. He confessed to the crime, while his brothers also confessed to burying their father the same day to prevent the police from arresting Ibrahim as advised by some people.”

Five suspected kidnappers who allegedly had been terrorising the Ibarapa area of the state and took part in the abduction of some lecturers of the Oyo State College of Agriculture and Technology, Igbo-Ora, were also paraded by the CP.