Police Arrests Redeemer Student For Murdering His Dad.

The Ogun State Police Command has arrested 21-
year old Tolani Ajayi (pictured above) a student of
the Department of History and International
Relations, Redeemer University, RCCG Camp Ogun
State for killing his father on Tuesday July 3rd.
According to PM News, the shattered body of
Barrister Charles Ajayi, 60, a  Senior Advocate of
Nigeria, was recovered in a box at a nearby bush
at Canaanland Street at the Redeemed Christian
Church of God Camp, Km 46 Lagos-Ibadan
Expressway.

The suspect who is a biological son of the slain
lawyer was arrested same day in his fathers
residence, at the scene of the incident, aroun 5:30
p.m. after the discovery of the corpse and Police
preliminary findings. Continue...
Redemption Camp DPO, Olaiya Martins who led a
team of detectives and some members of the
community traced ground marks of the box from
where it was dumped to the house of the suspect.
The corpse was traced to the house of late Barr.
Ajayi,where they met the suspect in a relaxed
mood in the house.
Upon interrogation, the suspect who had earlier
lied that his dad had gone on evangelism, however,
confessed to the crime when he was taken to the
Redemption Camp Divisional Headquarters.
He stated problem arose when his father
confronted him for not responding to all the prayer
points he raised, forcing his father to slap him. He
said he went mad and went straight to the kitchen
to pick up a knife to stab him and later a cutlass to
cut his throat.
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.
Ikemefuna Okoye, Commissioner of Police Ogun
state has since sent a team of detectives led by
the officer in charge of Homicide section of the
Department of Criminal Investigation, Eleweran,
Abeokuta to further investigate the murder.
Okoye sympathised with the family of the
deceased, particularly his wife, who is also a legal
practitioner and other children to take solace in the
Lord. He admonished other members of the
community in RCCG to be watchful, adding that,
such incident will not occur again as the Command
will improve on the synergy between the police and
the Internal Security Operatives of the RCCG.