By Adebimpe Afunku
Abeokuta
The Ogun State Police Command has again uncovered the mystery behind the killing of a legal luminary who was slaughtered by his biological son in the Redemption Camp along Lagos/Ibadan Expressway on Tuesday, July 3, at 0400hrs.
The shattered body of Barrister Charles Ajayi, 60, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), was seen and recovered in a nearby bush at Canaan land Street in the RCCG Camp, in a box.
The suspect, Tolani Ajayi, 21, is a 300 level student of Department of History and International Relations of Redeemer University, RCCG Camp, Ogun state.
He was arrested same date in his father’s residence, the scene of the incident, at about 1730hrs after the discovery of the corpse and police preliminary findings.
The DPO of Redemption Camp, SP Olaiya Martins, had led a team of detectives and some members of the community who noticed the strange attitude of the suspect while dumping a box, to the point where the body of the SAN was dumped and thereafter traced the ground marks of the dragged box from where the suspect dumped the dad’s corpse to the house of the lawyer, where they met the suspect in a relaxed mood.
On interrogation, the suspect earlier lied that his dad had gone on evangelism before he eventually confessed to the crime when he was taken to the Redemption Camp Divisional Headquarters.
He stated further that the problem arose when his father confronted him for not responding to all the prayer points he (the deceased) was calling and slapped him. He said he went mad and headed to the kitchen to pick up a knife to stab him and later a cutlass to cut his throat, killing him.
The exhibits, including the knife and cutlass he used in killing his father, had been recovered by the police and the corpse of the SAN had been deposited at a morgue in Sagamu.
The Commissioner of Police, Ogun state, CP Ikemefuna Okoye, has sent a team of detectives led by the officer in charge of homicide section of the Department of Criminal Investigation Eleweran Abeokuta to assess the situation and take over the matter for further investigation and necessary action.
