Olalonpe Ganiyu, until her death a couple of weeks ago, loved her
relations to a fault. Blessed with several children, Olanlope, said to
be close to a hundred years before her untimely death, showed great love
and affection for her kin.
When one of her daughters died in
early 2012, the elderly woman immediately took all the late daughter’s
children into her custody. Olanlope lived at Yemetu in Ibadan, Oyo
State.
Among the children Olanlope took into custody and caring
for is 32-Year-Old Tajudeen Adekunle. But ever since Adekunle and his
siblings had been living with their grandmother, the elderly woman and
her grandson were said to have been dealing with each other like cat and
dog. The no love lost relationship between grandmother and grandson
came to a head recently when Adekunle allegedly hacked the old woman to
death.
Evening of Sunday, October 15, 2012,
Adekunle’s grandmother advised him to have a haircut as she was said not
to be favourably disposed to his hair style. This had actually been a
source of disagreement between them before that day.
The next
day, Monday, October 16, 2012, when the old woman realised that Adekunle
was not ready to do her billing, she reportedly refused to prepare the
man’s dinner that day. This did not go down well with Adekunle who
reportedly refused to change his ‘crazy’ hairstyle as claimed by the
grandmother.
Both grandmother and grandson soon reportedly began to exchange abusive words.
When
Adekunle realized that his grandmother was not backing down on her
demands and insisting that he would not eat any food in the house that
night if he failed to do what she wanted, he quickly dashed inside his
room and came out with a cutlass, threatening the old woman with it.
But
one elderly peacemaker, Busari Ogundeji, said to be a neighbour of the
feuding family who could not pretend not to have heard the altercation
between grandmother and grandson came around the house to intervene.
When he got to Olanlope’s house, Ogundeji reportedly met Adekunle
holding a cutlass and he reportedly joined Adekunle’s grandmother
rebuking the enraged man.
Ogundeji was reported to have
threatened that should Adekunle refuse to drop the cutlass and do what
his grandmother ordered him to do; he would make him sweat by any means.
At this point, Adekunle’s anger rose and he wasted no time in striking
Ogundeji with the cutlass.
The cutlass reportedly inflicted deep
cut on Ogundeji’s body and the elderly man slumped and laid in his own
blood. When Olanlope saw what her grandson just did to a neighbour that
had joined her to discipline him, the old woman made a dash for the
door.
But Adekunle was faster. The hand holding the machete
descended again but this time on his grandmother’s neck. The
centenarian, like her male neighbour peace maker, also went down.
The
two elderly citizens did not make it to the hospital before they joined
their ancestors. Their corpses were later deposited at the Adeoyo
General Hospital mortuary. Though it was reported that Adekunle upon
realising what he had done made no efforts to flee the scene, he still
held tight to the cutlass daring anyone who would confront him.
Adekunle
was arrested. He was later transferred to the State Criminal
Investigation Department (SCID), Iyaganku, where he is being currently
detained.
Adekunle managed to speak with reporters about his action:
According
to him, he acted in self defense, saying that the threat not to give
him dinner made him behaved the way he did. “I severally warned Mama to
leave my hair alone but she refused to listen to me. What I did was the
best solution to her problem.
The cutlass I used was the one we
used to cut tree. It was kept inside the house. I hit her with the
cutlass just to let me be. I did not know she would die. I just hit her
with it to stop worrying me about my hair”, Adekunle said with no sense
of remorse.
Acting Police Public Relations Officer of Oyo State
Command, Joseph Oboyi, confirmed Adekunle’s arrest over the death of his
grandmother and the man who came to make peace. Oboyi claimed that the
accused would soon be prosecuted upon completion of investigations into
the dastardly act.
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