‘She Killed My Father’ – Son Stabs Mother to Death in Lagos

A man said to be a barber, Ibrahim Oluyinde, has been arrested for allegedly stabbing his mother to death in the Abule Egba area of Lagos. He reportedly committed the crime about 2pm on Friday, claiming that she was responsible for his father’s death.

According to Punch, Oluyinde, had paid a visit to his mother in her rented apartment on Bunmi Christopher Close where they were both reportedly indoors until an argument ensued. The deceased was said to have raised the alarm, begging her son not to kill her. However, by the time neighbours arrived the scene, the woman was in a pool of blood and Ibrahim fled.

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The matter was subsequently reported at the Oko Oba Police Division and the suspect was nabbed on Saturday.

One of the neighbours, who revealed that the woman was a mother of three, and Ibrahim was her second child, said,

“It was last year that the woman moved in with her husband. She was about 57. She was a goldsmith. One of her grandchildren – the daughter of her first daughter – was staying with her before this incident happened.

The father, however, died last year from sickness. He could not talk for some time before the sickness eventually claimed his life.

At about 2pm on Friday, I was in the kitchen when I heard some sharp cries from the woman’s room. She was calling on neighbours for help.

Others and I went to the woman’s door; it was locked. So, I went round and opened the window, I saw Ibrahim’s hand; it was wet with blood, but he refused to open the door.

We asked him why he attacked his mother; all he said was that it was his mother who killed his father. We were all shocked. The man is a barber. He plaits hair too. He, however, managed to escape. The police later arrested him and brought him to the house on Saturday.”

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Another resident said,

“The woman had a granddaughter staying with her. She is about one year and four months. The toddler was crying while Ibrahim attacked his mother. It was God who saved her; perhaps she might have been attacked too.

The strange thing is that the duo had not fought before in the house. Ibrahim did come once in a while to check his mother. He is the second child. He has an elder sister and a younger brother.

When I got to the woman’s room on Friday, he had run away through the back door. We forced the door open and met the lifeless body of Ibrahim’s mother on the floor. He stabbed her several times in the neck.”

The Police Public Relations Officer, SP Dolapo Badmos, who confirmed the incident, said investigations are ongoing.