Man kills sister over plantain harvest in Kogi

FROM NGOZI UWUJARE
The disagreement between 36-year-old Mohammed
Adamu and his elder sister, Ikani Ayebe Adamu, which had
simmered since 2014, finally boiled over, resulting in
Mohammed strangling her to death.
Mohammed is now gnashing his teeth in regret, in the
custody of the Kogi State Police Command, under the
watchful eyes of men of the State Criminal Investigation
Department, where he is undergoing interrogation.
Bad blood between the siblings developed over the
plantain planted in their father’s compound.
Long before Mohammed strangled the sister, Sunday Sun
gathered that he had severally threatened to kill her and
burn her house over her refusal to allow him harvest the
plantain planted in their father’s compound.
The deceased, Ikani, was the first among nine children of
the family, which hailed from Adumu Igah village,
Olamaboro Local Government Area, Kogi State. Four of
the children died later, prior to the recent demise of Ikani.
The Kogi State Commissioner of Police, Emmanuel
Ojukwu, who spoke with Sunday Sun expressed shock at
the horrifying death of the deceased.
One of the children of the deceased, Onaja Adamu who
recounted the chain of events that led to the death of the
mother said: “My uncle, Mohammed Adamu came to our
house around 4pm to inquire about the whereabouts of
my mother. I told him that my mother went to the farm to
harvest cassava stem.
“He left and came back around 6:00pm to ask about my
mother again. I still told him that my mother had not yet
come back. We became suspicious of why he was
insistent on knowing the whereabouts of my mother. So
we traced our mother to the farm and saw her dead body
around 8:00pm, lying by the side of the road; her wheelbar­
row also stood beside her.”
Promptly they raised the alarm and rushed to Olamaboro
Police Station to report the killing of their mother. The case
was transferred from Olamaboro Police Station to the
State Criminal Investigation Department, Lokoja for proper
investigation.
In a chat with Sunday Sun , the Deputy Commissioner of Po­
lice, in-charge of the State Criminal Investigation
Department, Lokoja, Mr. Ibrahim Sambo, said that
detectives were drafted to investigate the circumstances
that led to the death of Ikani. In the course of the
investigation, the detectives arrested Mohammed as the
prime suspect.
During interrogation, he confessed to the crime and
narrated how he killed his elder sister.
Sambo said that the autopsy report confirmed that the
deceased was strangled to death. He added that the
suspect would soon be charged to court.