SON SETS HIS FATHER ON FIRE IN LAGOS

A young man identified as Arinze Agwanze, who
resides at 16 Ikogba Street, Monkey Village,
Lagos, has done the unthinkable by gruesomely
murdering his father and setting him ablaze.
Arinze is believed to be mentally challenged but
his neighbors claimed he butchered his father
to death with a machete and went ahead to set
his corpse and the entire house ablaze in an
attempt to cover up his evil deed – so much
for insanity claims.
Although neighbours claimed nobody knew
what really transpired between Arinze and his
father leading to the son’s actions, an eye
witness told Sunday Sun that Arinze “has
always been stubborn”.
“On the day of the incident, his father had sent
him on an errand, but instead of attending to
his father’s needs, he was busy pressing his
phone. This got his father infuriated, prompting
him to smash his son’s phone.
This action of the father made Arinze angry and
he in return smashed his father’s phone. Not
done yet, the boy took a cutlass and attacked
his father cutting his head in the process
resulting in the man bleeding to death.
When Arinze observed that his father was dead
from the injuries he inflicted on him, he feared
that he would be arrested and perhaps beaten
up.
To cover up, he quickly set the house with his
late father’s body inside on fire and went into
hiding to avoid the wrath of relatives and resi­
dents.” the eyewitness narrated.
Neighbours’ attention were, however, drawn to
the scene by the flaming fire and on getting to
the house, they sighted the dead man with his
skull ripped open and blood gushing out in the
burning house.
The suspect is currently on the run.