A 45-year-old man, Gbenga Ogunfadeke, has been arrested on Tuesday in Ibiade, Waterside Local Government Area of Ogun State for allegedly chaining and confining his two children, Yusuf (18) and Dasola (17), until their death.
Penpushing reports that the Ogun State Command of Amotekun Corps effected the arrest of the suspect said to have been maltreating his three children, whose ages ranged between 16, 17 and 18, since the failed marriage with their mother, Busola Otusegun
The Amotekun Commandant David Akinremi, who confirmed the incident and subsequent arrest of the father of three in a statement on Wednesday said the suspect accused the children, a boy and a girl, of stealing and chained them in a confined space without food and water for over three months until they died.
Penpushing further reports that Akintemi emphasized that the suspect was arrested following a complaint by the children’s mother, adding that one of the children had complained and narrated their experience to a relative
“One of the three children came across his aunty in Ibiade where he currently lives with his father (suspect) and narrated their experience with their father, which led to the death of his two elder siblings, Yusuf Ogunfadeke (18 years) and Dasola Ogunfadeke (17 years) between April and June 2022 in Ijebu-Ode where they were all living with the suspect until he relocated back to Ibiade’.
“According to him (the child), their father chained and locked them in solitary confinement, without food and water for over three months which led to the death of the two siblings but he miraculously survived the ordeal”
Penpushing also reports that the Amotekun boss disclosed that the suspect admitted keeping the children in confinement for months, but denied starving them, arguing that he was not responsible for the death, but that claimed he took the two deceased children to hospital at different times before they died.
“What is however curious about his defence is that the hospital where he claimed the two children died in Ijebu Ode could neither be located nor where he allegedly buried them behind a rented apartment he lived in Ijebu-Ode before relocating to his present abode in Ibiade with the third child for possible exhumation be traced’, the statement added.
‘The fact that he refused to make the incidents known to any member of the family also gives course for concern moreso when the suspect is a herbalist, thus further fueling the suspicion of having killed the deceased for possible rituals’, Akinremi said.
‘Consequently, the case is being transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department for further investigation with a view to establishing further facts that will facilitates his prosecution’, the statement emhasised.
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