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The 22-year-old man who beheaded his father in Ilado village, Badagry, on Monday has sensationally revealed that he committed the heinous crime because the deceased staged a coup against him.
The 22-year-old man who beheaded his father in Ilado village, Badagry, on Monday has sensationally revealed that he committed the heinous crime because the deceased staged a coup against him.
Segun Ajasa, now in police custody, told Daily Sun on Wednesday how his late father, Akin, took him from home, in Arandegu in Badagry, to a shrine in Ilado village allegedly with the motive to kill him for money making ritual.
He described the plot as a coup that failed, adding that the punishment for that act, which he promptly administered on his father, was death.
Segun, who looked unruffled while recounting the 'coup tale," explained that his father, in his early 50s, had attempted to machete him to death for the ritual before a big ditch in the shrine, but he foiled the plot and struck him dead.
Describing in chilling detail how he chopped off his father's head, Segun said: 'I killed my father because he made attempt to kill me. I didn't believe he could plan a coup against me. He took me to a shrine and asked me to kneel down. The priestess used razor blade to clean shave my hair. I didn't ask questions because I had always obeyed my father without questions.
There was a big ditch inside the shrine. They asked me to kneel in front of the ditch. The priestess poured a liquid substance into the ditch, asked me to raise my eyes and poured it into my eyes. It was painful. I could barely see. I tried to open one eye.
'I saw myself in front of two standing mirrors. My father was behind me. He had a cutlass, which he raised up to kill me with and I dived to the right and the blow just missed my neck, but I still got a cut on my left arm.
'I had already noticed several machetes in that room when they took me into the room. I picked one of the machetes I used it to hit his hand. His own machete fell. Then I dealt him machete cuts many times. He screamed but I kept cutting his neck until his head fell off."
Segun, who is the only son among the deceased's four children, said he saw nothing wrong when his father said he should accompany him to Ilado village on Sunday. According to him, he was told that they would spend the night at the priestess' house.
The young man, who is the last in the family, said he had a breakfast of rice before being taken to the shrine on Monday morning. According to him, immediately the priestess noticed that he was attacking his father, she disappeared.
'I shouted for help, people came and started beating me. They called the police," said Segun.
Daily Sun gathered that the late Akin Ajasa had been separated from his wife for years. The deceased was said to be unemployed, having lost his job few years ago.