A 300-level student allegedly killed his father for slapping him during a prayer session

A 300-level student of  a private university in Ogun State, who allegedly killed his father for slapping him during a prayer session, has been arrested by the state police command.
Tolani (surname withheld) of the Department of History and International Relations allegedly stabbed his father, Charles, a 60-year-old senior lawyer, with a knife.
He was also said to have later used a cutlass to cut his late father’s throat and  dumped him in a bush.
According to the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Mr. Muyiwa Adejobi, the incident occurred last Tuesday at The Redemption Camp, along the Lagos /Ibadan Expressway at about 4 pm.
Adejobi said Tolani confessed to the heinous crime after the shattered body of his father, which he hid in a box, was uncovered in a bush at Canaan Land Street  in the RCCG  Camp.
The police spokesman quoted Tolani as telling homicide detectives that he killed his father because he slapped him for not responding to a prayer point during a session in the early hours of the day of the incident.
“I went mad and went straight  to the kitchen to pic
k up a knife to stab my father and later used a  cutlass to cut his throat and killed him,” Adejobi quoted Tolani, who said he later regretted his action, as saying.
The exhibits including the knife and the cutlass the suspect allegedly used in killing his father, had been recovered by the police and the remains of the senior lawyer had been deposited at a morgue in Sagamu.
The suspect, who was arrested the same day in his father’s residence, is already assisting the police in their investigations.
Daily Sun gathered that before Tolani was arrested, he had lied that his dad had gone on evangelism and would not return the same day but later confessed to the crime after his interrogation at the Redemption Camp Divisional Headquarters.
The Divisional Police Officer (DPO) in charge of the area, Mr. Olaiya Martins,  a Superintendent of Police, later led a team of detectives and some members of the community to where he dumped the body.
Already, the state Police  Commissioner, Ikemefuna Okoye, had ordered a team of detectives, led by the officer in charge of Homicide Section of the Department of Criminal Investigation in Eleweran, Abeokuta to take over the matter for further investigation.
He appealed to parents to always show their children the right path to follow and, “train them with our cultural value and morals,” adding, “It is incredible to hear and see such a situation where a son will kill his father during a prayer session.”