THE
length to which some people can go to satisfy selfish desires can best be
explained with the cases of a son who conspired with others to kill his own
father, while a father got the support of another man to kill his son.
Thirty-three-year-old
Ahmadu Saidu, a resident of Rakama village in Ningi Local Government Area of
Bauchi State, was arrested by policemen from Ningi Division of the state police
command for allegedly conspiring with 30-year-old Umar Sanda Ali and one other
suspect, now at large, to kill his biological father on the excuse that the
deceased, Sa’idu Lawwali, was a thief, causing shame to the family in their
area.
They
did not stop at slaughtering 60-year-old Lawwali; they also burnt his corpse
and buried him in a shallow grave in the village before they were nabbed by the
police.
Speaking
with Crime Reports while being paraded alongside other suspects who committed
various offences at the Bauchi State Police Command headquarters during the
week, Saidu vehemently denied killing the man who sired him, saying it was his
accomplice, Umar, who committed the act.
According
to him, Umar came to their house in the village and slaughtered his father on
the ground that he had been stealing people’s goats and cows. He, however,
accepted that the deceased had been causing a lot of embarrassment to his
family and that he and his sister had not been able to get anyone in the
village to marry.
“I
am not involved in the killing because I have never stolen in my life. My
sister and I are not married because people call us children of a thief. No one
has come to marry my sister and any woman I proposed to usually turned me down
on the excuse that my father was a thief,” he added.
However,
Ali swore that he was innocent of the crime he was accused of.
“I
swear I don’t know anything about Ahmadu’s father’s death,” he simply said.
In
a related case, a 10-year-old, Aliyu Rabiu, was dispatched to the world beyond
by his father, Rabiu Yusuf, for alleged stubborness.
But
Yusuf, a farmer and a father of nine, including the deceased boy, said that he
only detained the boy for his obstinacy.
He
said he had divorced the boy’s mother and had married another woman, adding
that the boy ran away to stay with his mother. This, he said, did not go down
well with him, hence his ordering the return of the boy to his house. The
boy, he said, however refused to comply with his directive.
He
added that he was forced to go and bring the boy back home, after which he
detained him. In the process, the boy became ill, the father claimed.
According
to him, he took the boy to a doctor who gave him an injection and drug, saying
that it was the deceased’s grandmother who took him to Rimi Clinic in Bauchi
where he later died, though he lamented that he never knew his action could
cause his son’s death.
“I
don’t know why they invited me here because I only wanted my son to stay with
me since I am no more living with his mother. But he was stubborn, so I
detained him in the house and as a result of this, he fell ill,” he added.
Addressing
journalists, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in the state police
command, Haruna Mohammed, said that Yusuf conspired with one Ismail Idris to
kill the deceased.
According
to the police spokesman, a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), Yusuf chained
and detained the boy for a period of 10 days and the boy later fell ill as a
result of the ill-treatment meted to him. He added that the boy was taken to
Rimi Clinic in Bauchi where he died while receiving treatment.
Yusuf’s
accomplice, Idris, who said he was a Tsangaya (Islamic) teacher, stated that
though the boy was brought to him about two months ago, his father later came
back for him and took him home, adding that he did not know anything about the
boy’s death.
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