The young
man not only butchered his very own father, but also burnt the body of
the deceased until it was unrecognizable... Daily Sun is,reporting the
shocking story of how residents of number 16 Ikogba Street, Monkey
Village, Lagos are still unable to solve since June 30, 2014 when the
heinous crime was committed.
The suspect,
Arinze Agwanze who neighbours claimed, is mentally challenged,
butchered his father to death with a machete and went ahead to set his
corpse and the entire house ablaze in an attempt to cover up his evil
deed.
Arinze from
Anambra State lived with his parents at 16 Ikogba Street, Monkey
Village, in Ojo Local Government Area of Lagos State. Close neighbours
claimed they overheard him murmuring to himself that his late father, Mr
Agwanze who was suffering from stroke had been getting on his ways and
promised to deal with him. Nobody knew what really transpired between
Arinze and his father that led the son to kill his father that fateful
day. However, a neighbour who did not want her name in print said Arinze
has always been stubborn. On the day of the incident, his father was
said to have sent him on an errand, but instead of attending to his
father’s needs, he was busy pressing his phone. This got his father
infuriated, prompting him to smash his son’s phone. This action of the
father made Arinze angry and he in return smashed his father’s phone.Not
done yet, the boy took a cutlass and attacked his father cutting his
head in the process resulting in the man bleeding to death. When Arinze
observed that his father was dead from the injuries he inflicted on him,
he feared that he would be arrested and perhaps beaten up. To cover up,
he quickly set the house with his late father’s body inside on fire and
went into hiding to avoid the wrath of relatives and residents.
Neighbours’ attention were, however, drawn to the scene by the flaming
fire and on getting to the house, they sighted the dead man with his
head skull ripped open and blood gushing out inside the burning house.
The suspect has since ran away from the house.
When Sunday
Sun visited the street, there were still the hush voices of sympathisers
and the remnant of the burnt house, even as carpenters and other repair
workers are working day and night to bring it back to normalcy.
Some
neighbours claimed that before Arinze sent his father to his untimely
death on that day, he was seen at noon burning some family members’
cloths downstairs before moving upstairs to spread the entire house with
petrol and set the house on fire while his father was in a pool of his
blood.
One of
Arinze`s siblings who is yet to come to terms with what could have
transpired between Arinze and their father, as all members of the family
went out for their normal business on that fateful day, said they came
back to find their father murdered and the entire parlour of their house
wrecked by fire. “I don’t believe whatever Arinze is saying to defend
this tragedy that befell our household. At a young age, he had brain
damage and it is not everybody that knows. It is only us members of his
family that are aware of his situation. Whenever he gets upset, it’s
always uncontrollable. It comes to him in a flash like an evil spirit.
That he claimed that our father offended him is the one thing I don’t
believe.”
A neighbour
who spoke under anonymity, revealed that Arinze has this rage of anger
that he flares up intermittently. He said though everyone has been
keeping close eyes on him, he maintained that one hardly believes that
Arinze is insane because the suspect sales recharge cards and do other
normal things like every other normal person and also browses with his
phone. He asked rhetorically, how can someone who is not normal browse
and sale recharge cards? The neighbour who lives opposite the suspect
said that he was on his way to his house when he sighted Arinze burning
some items in front of the house. When he confronted him to know what
was going on, he said the suspect was laughing. But when he left th the
suspect’s compound in not less two hours, residents shouted fire and he
was able to join them to stop the fire from burning down the whole
house. “When I came into their compound, I saw him burning his siblings’
clothes and I thought maybe it could be old clothes not knowing that
his father has warned him not to burn his relatives’ cloths but he
refused and went ahead to do it. I actually left because I thought it
was old clothes that he was burning, but after two hours, we saw fire in
the house and we all went to rescue the situation. After we stopped the
fire and rushed inside the house, we discovered that Arinze`s father
was burnt and his head butchered with machete. It was a gory sight,” the
source said.
Narrating
what could have led to the suspect fighting with his sick father,
another resident who doesn’t want her name in print said that she saw
Arinze`s father with blood coming out from his head and running down
his body while his skull was ripped wide open. “His father had always
been calling him to order, telling him to obey his mother whenever they
sent him (Arinze) on an errand but he always despised him.”
Sunday Sun
learnt that the residents and family of the suspect initially deposited
the dead man’s body at the mortuary after the incident, but the next day
they took the body to his village in Awka, Anambra State for proper
burial. A source close to the family revealed that the suspect had ran
away from their house and is suspected to be hiding within the
neighbourhood. “My brother, we are still in shock why he killed his
father and set him on fire. This is where he got the fuel, from that
generator over there (pointing at generator stand) and he moved upstairs
and spread the house with the fuel and set it on fire while his father
was there. It is an abomination, lamented the neighbour.”
When Sunday
Sun contacted the Agboju Police Station to confirm the incident, the DPO
said that they are unaware of the case and referred the reporter to the
PPRO’s office in Ikeja.
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