Man stabs 65-year-old mom to death over late father’s property

A 37-year-old man, Nurudeen Bakare, went wild on Wednesday, stabbing his 65-year-old mother, Bosede, to death, The Nation said in a report.

Bakare was said to have killed his mother after an argument over a property at their Oremeji, Ilasamaja, Mushin, Lagos home.

He was said to have accused his mother, popularly called Iya Fali, of sitting on his father’s property, and allegedly stabbed her with a knife.

Bakare, according to a witness, was said to have been shouting at the top of his voice as he committed the crime: “I have killed her! I have killed her!!, I have killed her!!!”

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Some youths reportedly restrained him and he pleaded not to be killed, but to be handed over to the police.

Lagos State Police Command’s spokesman, Chike Oti, said Bakare had been arrested and taken to Homicide Section of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (SCIID) at Panti, Yaba.