The
Lagos State Police Command has arrested 22-year-old Oluwaropo Tifase, for
allegedly killing his father, Moses Tifase, in the Mile 2 area of the state.
Our correspondent learnt that Oluwaropo, who is
the fifth child and only son of the family, had had clashes with his parents in
the past over financial issues.
According to the police, Oluwaropo, a suspected
cultist, was rusticated from a university in Ondo State, a few years ago for
some cult-related offences.
PUNCH Metro gathered that 75-year-old
Moses, a retired mechanical engineer, was stabbed to death in the neck with a
pair of scissors.
The
Tifases, who hail from Imesi Ile, Osun State, were living in an apartment in
Block 285, Jakande Estate, Mile 2, Lagos.
It was learnt that Oluwaropo allegedly sneaked
into his father’s bedroom to carry out the act on December 6.
In her statement to the police, Oluwaropo’s
mother, Funmilayo, said the family and neighbours discovered Moses lying dead
in a pool of blood.
The 65-year-old added that Oluwaropo had violent
tendencies as he once manhandled her during an argument.
She said, “Oluwaropo is our last child and son.
He has four sisters. He and his immediate elder sister stay with us in the
house. The elderly ones have got married and left. He usually slept in my room.
On the evening before that incident, I told him to go and lock our door. He did
that and we all slept.
“But when I woke up at dawn, I discovered he was
no longer in my room. When I came to the sitting room, I did not find him
either. After a while, I heard footsteps in the passage, and it was him. He was
shocked to find me in the sitting room. I asked him where he was coming from;
he said he heard some strange footsteps and went to check who it was, but he
found nothing.
“The mistake I made was that I did not check his
father’s room at that time. It was in the morning that we discovered that Moses
had been killed in his room, and surprisingly, our house was not broken into.”
Our correspondent learnt that the neighbours
reported the incident at the FESTAC Police Division. The police arrested the
three family members –Funmilayo, Oluwaropo and his sister– for questioning.
PUNCH Metro gathered that preliminary
police investigations showed that Moses was killed by his son ─ Oluwaropo.
However, it was learnt that the suspect had yet to confess to the crime.
It was learnt that Moses had returned from
Nasarawa State, where he worked, to Lagos around July this year.
The family reportedly put pressure on their
father to come back to Lagos as his work was not going smoothly over there.
When our correspondent visited the family’s
apartment on Monday, the doors were locked and dusty. A neighbour, who craved
anonymity, told our correspondent that since the incident, the family had not
been seen in the apartment.
She said, “The boy had always been rude. The way
he usually argued with his aged parents was baffling.
“Since he was rusticated from school, he had been
doing some casual work at a warehouse in Apapa. Then on the fateful day, the
shocking incident happened.
“Since that time, the police arrested all the
family. I have not noticed anyone in the apartment ever since.”
The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer,
DSP Kenneth Nwosu, confirmed the arrest.
He added that the police were still carrying out
investigations on the matter.
He said, “The case has been transferred to the
State Criminal Investigations Department, Yaba, where further investigation is
being carried out.”
Source: Punch
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