A 26- year-old man, Ikechukwu Okoro has been arrested and is in the custody of Ebonyi State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) for allegedly beating his three-year-old son, Chinedu to death.
It was gathered that Okoro woke up by 4.30am on September 13, 2013 to discover that his sick and only son had urinated on the bed and in anger he picked up a cane and flogged the child till he passed out. He rushed the dead boy to a nearby clinic but he was confirmed dead on arrival.
According to Okoro, he flogged the child out of annoyance and blamed the devil for the misfortune, adding that his wife abandoned him in 2009 with Chinedu, his only son who is now deceased..
"He was the only son I had. When I discovered that he had defecated on the bed we were sleeping together, I went outside to look for a stick to flog him, just like any other normal father would have done to his recalcitrant child. I found a bitter leaf stick and used it to flog him twice. I didn't know that it could lead to his death.
"My son had been sick, his stomach was swollen before I flogged him," Okoro lamented.
One of the neighbours who was present while Okoro flogged his son said, he begged him to stop but it fell on deaf ears.
Ebonyi State Police Command through its State Criminal Investigations Department, (SCID) is currently interrogating Ikechukwu Okoro at Isieta Amanato Isu Onicha.
The Ebonyi State Commissioner of Police, Mr Maigari Abbati Dikko said that it was a shock to him that the suspect, Ikechukwu confessed to have flogged his own son, Chinedu to death and that the case had been transferred to the State CID for further investigation. He said the suspect would be charged to court for murder.*
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