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man who was so angry with his son over a really heinous crimes he has
committed, took the law into his hands to correct the error.
The father
A 34-year-old man, Solomon (surname withheld) killed his
11-year-old son for sleeping with his 8-year-old sister in the Tasha
Gwagwa area of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
According to Sunday Sun, the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Wilson
Inalegwu who confirmed the unfortunate incident described it as
pathetic and a very troubling demonstration of the decay that has crept
into the Nigerian society, and which calls for parents to keep close
tabs on the kind of visual materials their children are exposed to at
home through movies
At the State Criminal Investigation Department of the Federal
Capital Territory Police Command, where he is being held, Solomon has
been bemoaning his action and cursing the evil spirit that led his late
son into the grievous error of committing incest with his eight-year-old
sister (name withheld).
As he recounted to Sunday Sun in Abuja, Solomon said that he came
home one day in April 2016 and saw his young son engaged in sexual act
with his younger sister right in his bedroom.
“Victor was my son, an 11-year-old boy. I had been receiving
bad reports about him. The height of it was that he started sleeping
with his sister, who is eight-years-old.
"I had been receiving several reports about the ugly incident.
Around 4.00 pm, I came back from work and met Victor sleeping with his
sister in my bedroom. The stepmother was not at home,” Solomon said.
Overcome by anger, he rushed out again, picked up a stick and beat
him severely. But then the devil took over, twisted the situation to the
point that the little boy went into convulsion and then lost
consciousness the next day. Benevolent neighbours of the family rushed
him to Gwarinpa General Hospital, where he died soon after he got to the
hospital.
The father, who earlier in the day had gone out was summoned to the
hospital by phone. When he got to the hospital and introduced himself,
the doctor informed him that his son had died.
The doctor detained him on pretext and promptly called the Gwarinpa
police station, which sent policemen and Solomon was arrested.
According to Inalegwu, the doctor told the police that the boy died
as a result of internal injuries he sustained in the course of being
beaten by his father.
Visibly weighed down by the sad outcome of the seeming punishment
he administered on the late boy, the bereaved father who hails from
Igbo-Eze North Local Government Area of Enugu State, said: “ I wept when the doctor told me that my son had died. I didn’t have the intention to kill my son.
"I was trying to correct him because of the immoral act he
committed. How can I beat my son to death? I couldn’t believe what I
saw. I only acted in anger; I never wanted to kill my son.”
When Sunday Sun visited Tasha Gwagwa community, a neighbour of the bereaved father, Ali Ahmed told Sunday Sun reporter:
“We heard when the father was beating the child. He beat him to correct
him for what he did. The son was very stubborn. The father never had
intention to kill his son.
He spoke further: “What the doctor did that night in the
hospital was bad. How could he call the police to arrest the father of
the dead boy? We were expecting the doctor to tell the father how to
carry the corpse of his son. It is a lesson to every parent.” Another
neighbour, John Gabriel, however, had a contrary view:
“What the doctor did was right. The doctor thought that the
father would run away upon hearing that his child had died. The parents
of the boy are good people. It was me that even called the father on the
phone to meet us at the hospital.”
Meanwhile the FCT Commissioner of Police has said the matter would be charged to court.
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