A 23-year-old man, Ibrahim Hassan has been arrested for allegedly killing his 90-year-old father, Sabi Ibrahim, in the Ajibesin area, along Okolowo Ilorin, to have access to his bank account.
The spokesperson of the state police command, SP Okansanmi Ajayi, who confirmed the incident to newsmen, said on August 5, one Aishat Ibrahim visited the police and reported that her 90-year-old dad was missing.
He said an investigation into the matter led to the arrest of Ibrahim who is the biological son of the missing old man.
During investigation, the suspect confessed to have administered paracetamol injection mixed with other substances on his father, who became weak and dizzy immediately after the injection, this he did after coming from the bank where he took his father to renew and collect his ATM card.
Ibrahim was said to have borrowed the motorcycle which he used to convey his father to an isolated uncompleted building were he strangled him to death.
He further dug a shallow grave where he buried his father after dispossessing him of the ATM card they went to the bank to collect.”Ajayi said
The police spokesperson stated that the suspect escaped to Kaduna state and started withdrawing from his late father’s account.
He withdrew a total sum of N59,000.
Ibrahim also sold the borrowed motorcycle and eloped to Kaduna state where he was eventually arrested.
The ATM card and the stolen motorcycle have been recovered and the Suspect would soon be charged to court.
