A 33-year old, man Azeez Kilani, has been arrested for allegedly stealing cassava tubers and subsequently killing the farm owner, David Adima at Sojulu village via Ibogun in Ifo Local Government Area of the state.
He was paraded by the Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Iliyasu alongside 42 other suspects at the State Headquarters, Eleweran, Abeokuta.
Iliyasu said the cassava thief decided to murder the deceased to cover up his track “having realised he is well known.”
The suspect denied hacking the deceased to death but wrestled with the victim who was using his cutlass to beat him, and in the process, the cutlass hit the deceased on the neck while he fainted and died afterwards.
The suspect said he gave Adima, who hailed from Benue, the piece of land upon which he planted the cassava.
“He met me on his farm uprooting his cassava, but I begged him not to report me to Village Head (Baale). He was armed with cutlass and he deployed the cutlass to beat me and I resisted.
I dragged the cutlass with him and in the process, the cutlass hit him on the neck and he fainted. He later died on the farmland. The incident happened on August 13”, Kilani said.
