Opeyemi Olamilekan
A man has been arrested for allegedly killing his mother with a stick in Nigeria’s southern state of Cross River, police said.
The incident occurred in the Obudu Local Government Area of the state.
According to an interrogation video, Mathias Amunde, alongside an accomplice smashed a stick on his mother, dragged her body outside and threw it inside a well.
The suspect while being interrogated in a police station noted that his accomplice fled after they jointly threw his mother’s remains inside a well.
“I and Walcot killed her. We killed her with a stick. Walcot has gone to his house. After we killed him, Walcot dragged him out of the house and we jointly dragged him to the well. After we got to the well, I opened it and we jointly carried her body and threw it into the well,” Amunde said in Pidgin.
The motive behind the attack could not immediately known.
The state police command’s spokesperson Irene Ugbo said the case would be referred to the command’s headquarters for further investigation.
“Yes, he has been arrested. He will be transferred to the police headquarters for further investigation tomorrow (Tuesday),” Ugbo told The Punch newspaper.
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