A 12-year-old boy, Ibukun Solomon, has described vividly how his mother Tayelolu, killed his father, Felix, in Ondo town, Ondo State.
Reports gathered, stated that the mother of three, reportedly killed her 65-year-old husband, a farmer, by hitting him thrice with a pestle while sleeping in their house, located at the Government Reservation Area, GRA, in Ondo town.
It was also gathered that up until the murder, the couple have always been having marital disputes with the wife always threatening to kill the husband and elope.
As usual, they had another argument last weekend, the deceased went to sleep on the chair and the wife reportedly hit him several times with a pestle.
According to Solomon, his mother had smashed his father’s head with a pestle while sleeping following an argument that ensued between them before the latter slept off.
“Earlier on the fateful day, a minor argument had ensued between them that resulted in a fight. After the fight, my father went to lie on the chair and my mother hit his head with the pestle.
“He became unconscious and fell down from where he was sleeping. My mother used the pestle to hit my father’s head three times. He later died.
“When my mother saw that my father was already unconscious, she hid the pestle at the back of our house and ran away.
”I alerted some of the residents, who rushed my father to the hospital. But he later died. His corpse has been deposited at the morgue.
“My mother had three children for my father and I’m the last child.”
Reacting to his brother’s murder, a brother of the deceased said that the family members have mediated several times to amicably settle the incessant fight between his brother the his wife.
However, all their efforts were friutless with no end to the incessant quarrels,
According to him “The woman had been threatening to kill her husband whenever they were fighting. And the deceased informed us about the threats. But we never knew she would carry out the devilish act.
“But this time, she took laws into her hands and killed our brother for nothing. She must be arrested and prosecuted accordingly.”
Meanwhile, efforts reach the state police spokesperson, Funmi Odunlami, proved abortive, though a top police officer confirmed that the fleeing suspect would soon be arrested and charged to court for murder.
