ODUDUWA NEWS has gathered that a 16-year-old boy identified as Ismail Adeagbo has on Friday, day of Eidel-Fitri been detained at a Divisional Police Command, Tede, Atisbo Local Government for allegedly killing his father.
The lifeless body of the deceased, Jimoh Adeagbo who before his death was a worker at the Atisbo Local Government Council was found in a pool of blood by the community residents.
According to a confessional statement made to the Police by the arrested killer boy who committed the homicide, he said to have belonged to a member of notorious cult group, Alora.
According to the boy, on the 20th of April, 2023, he was mandated by the leaders of his cult group to kill his father before the midnight of that day, which he eventually carried out without hesitation.
He said, the cult leaders warned him not disobey the order and that doing so would have great consequences on him which may eventually cost his own life too.
According to the community people who spoke to ODUDUWA NEWS under the condition of anonymity, they said, the boy who killed his father by hitting his head with car engine shaft had gone out to announce the death of his father by shedding crocodile tears only to realize later that he killed his father by himself.
It was learnt that the boy confessed to his mother that he killed his father. In complicit, the mother asked the boy to go on hibernation by hiding himself somewhere until the matter gets resolved.
The Police having received complaints of the incident by the family of the deceased swung into action and in the course of investigation got the culprit who was hiding arrested as well as his mother who connived to shield him away from being arrest.
As at the time of filing this report, we await the official statement on the incident from the Oyo State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Adewale Osifeso as all calls put through him by our correspondent could not be answered.