A 25-year-old man simply identified as Kido has been arrested for allegedly killing his father, Ikechukwu Onyegai, over a farmland in Issele-Uku community, Aniocha North Local Government Area of Delta State.
It was gathered that the young man killed his father with during a scuffle on Friday after he accused him of harvesting crops on his farm without his permission.
Villagers from Ukpai quarters arrested the suspect and handed him over to the police
In a video shared on Facebook, the suspect claimed that a quarrel ensued after his father threatened to strike him with a cutlass.
“He came to meet me on the farm where I was working, and he wanted to take the cutlass because we were not on good terms. When he raised the cutlass and threatened to cut me, I blocked him with the firewood and then used the firewood to hit him.
“As he was falling, his phone fell from him, I then collected the phone. I didn’t know he would die. It was firewood I used. When I was going to the farm, everybody saw me. I was not carrying anything.” the man said.
Delta police spokesman, DSP Edafe Bright, confirmed the incident.
KanyiDaily had also reported how the police arrested a 23-Year-old man for allegedly killing his 90-year-old father for not giving him access to his ATM card in Kwara.
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