One Mr Innocent Uko, an indigene of Ebe Ikpe village in Essein Udim LGA, Akwa Ibom State has been arrested by the Police for allegedly killing his 26-year-old son, Boniface, for harvesting cassava on his farm.
The arrest was made after the village head, Chief Akpan Aniekan and the council chairman, Sylvester Akpan reported the incident.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, SP Odiko Macdon, who disclosed this to newsmen in Uyo, the state capital, on Tuesday said the suspect had confessed to killing his son with a machete and also setting the corpes ablaze after which he dumped it in an abandoned pit toilet in his compound to conceal the act.
He said, “One Chief Akpan Aniekan, the village head of Ebe Ikpe village in the company of one Sylvester Akpan, the village council chairman reported that one Innocent Uko of Ebe Ikpe village in Essein Udim Local Government Area, used a machete and killed his son, Boniface, aged 26 years, burnt the corpse and dumped the carcass of the deceased in an abandoned pit toilet in his compound to conceal the act.
“On the strength of the report, police operatives in Essien Udim Divisional Headquarters visited the scene. The deceased’s burnt corpse has been deposited at the morgue. The suspect was arrested and has confessed to killing the deceased, his son on the grounds of bad character and incessant harassment and embarrassment.”
