The Nigeria Police have charged a 23-year-old man, Saidi Musa, before a Kwara State Magistrates Court in Ilorin with the alleged murder of his father, Chief Musa, the Elemosho of Shareland in Kwara State’s Ifelodun Local Government.
Saidi will be tried in court for culpable homicide for allegedly murdering his father.
Saidi was accused of attacking his father, the traditional chief of Share, the seat of the state’s Ifelodun Local Government Council, over supposed ’cause’ being poured on him by the deceased father without any cause.
“A police first information report (FIR) revealed Saidi’s claim that his father was causing him pain for no reason while sitting in the sitting room.”
“Saidi, reportedly got annoyed as a result of his father’s unpleasant words and attacked him with cutlass on the head, hitting him severally till he died and later escaped to a mountain in Share”, the FIR stated.
The police prosecutor, Sergeant Abdullah Sanni, informed the court that the matter is not ordinarily bailable considering the fact that it’s culpable homicide urging the court to consider the motion exparte attached to the FIR and order that the defendant should be remanded in the Correctional facility centre.
The presiding Chief Magistrate, Alhaji Mohammed Dasuki, in his short ruling, ordered Saidi’s remand while the matter is adjourned to 9th January, 2024 for mention.
“This Court lacks jurisdiction on this matter which is Culpable homicide punishable with death. In view of the exparte motion attached to the charge paper, I hereby order that the defendant be put in the Federal Correctional Service facility in Ilorin till the next adjourned date. The case is adjourned till 24th of January,2024 for mention”, he said.