A son who killed his father for preventing him from going out at their residence in the Ijoko area of Ogun State, has been arrested by the police. The incidence occurred on Monday, May 6, 2019, and it was gathered that Babatunde Olagesin hacked his father, Taiwo Olagesin, to death with a cutlass. The murder suspect (son) who wanted to leave home for Oshodi, Lagos State, around 6am, killed his father who prevented him from going out while insisting that he would accompany him somewhere.
Taiwo had brought out the cutlass to scare his son, however during a struggle with Babatunde who wanted to take it from him, he was slashed in the stomach by the cutlass. The Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, who confirmed the incident, said the case had been transferred to the Homicide Section of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department in Eleweran, Abeokuta.