RESIDENTS of Ibadan, Oyo State, were recently stunned on Sunday October 16, 2012 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,our source 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 revealed.
The unrepentant 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. Showing the many wounds inflicted 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,”
On the third person, Iya Eleko, that was said to have also been injured
from his attack, he said he could not remember if any other person was
affected on that day.
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.
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