Man Kills Father Over A Stick Of Cigarette

The Edo State Police Command, yesterday, paraded 63 suspected armed
robbers, child defilers and murderers, including a 25-year-old boy who
murdered his father after a quarrel over a stick of cigarette he stole
from his father.

Confessing his sins, Best Momodu, an indigene of Etsako West Local
Government Area of Edo State, who murdered his father, said he
committed the dastard act with anger after he stole a stick of
cigarette from his father.

He said: "I stole his cigarette and he found out. So he started
shouting at me and quarrelling. So, mistakenly I took a knife and
stabbed him. I have not seen the dead body but I heard he died. But
the community people arrested me after I killed him."

The state Commissioner of Police, Folunso Adebanjo, who paraded the
suspects, admonished residents of the state to be vigilant
particularly at the airports, crowded places, uncompleted buildings
and to monitor their environments.

Declaring that the police in the state had put up strategies to curb
crime thisembermonths, the CP raised alarm over increasing number of
cases of child defilers in the state and urged parents to be watchful,
saying the activities of child defilers are not only worrisome but
wicked.

According to him, "this is the beginning of theembermonths, these are
times criminals will want to reap where they did not sow. I want to
thank the people of the state for their corporation and I urge for
continued partnership between the police and the public.

"If you observe anything around, report to the police, monitor all
uncompleted buildings because that is where criminals hide."