Junior Secondary 3 Student Kills Father After Spending N1000 Meant For Cooking

In a country where the gap between the rich and the poor is as wide as Russia and Canada put together, where the thieving and looting has become so endemic that one man can comfortably loot 100billion Naira, (well not in this administration) it is in this contrasting circumstance that a family found themselves when Ifeanyichukwu Ejeh, a 16-year old Junior secondary student clubbed his father Michael Ejeh to death over N1000, £1.60. 

The shocking incident happened in Ndiogodo Idoko village, Ishieke community of Ebonyi Local Government Area of Ebonyi.

According to NewTelegraph, Ifeanyichukwu, who is an SS2 student of Community Secondary School, Mbeke in the area, was said to have hit the father severally with a pounding pestle when the father was asleep shortly after a misunderstanding between them over N1,000 money given to the boy to buy things and cook for the family but which the father allegedly used to settle financial requirements in his school.

He has now been arraigned before an Abakaliki Magistarte court charged under section 319(1) cap 33 vol. 1 laws of Ebonyi State of Nigeria. Ifeanyi with charge No MAB/105/2017. 

Ifeanyichukwu pleaded for leniency and blamed his act on a spirit attack. He said he was reading his book in their compound when something suddenly came over him and asked him to kill his father but regained his senses after committing the crime and saw his father lying in the pool of blood.

Mrs Mary Ejeh, the deceased’s wife, a Cross River-based business woman, who admitted she was not around when the incident occurred, said the deceased had given N1,000 to the suspect for cooking but he used it for his school expenses which annoyed the father, leading to a heated argument between the deceased and his son.