behind bars follow-ing his arrest by detectives of the criminal
investigation department in the Anambra State police command for
allegedly macheting his 59-year-old father, Nwafor Nnalue to death.
The state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Hosea Karma, who confirmed the
develop-ment, disclosed that the suspect equally cut the deceased's
hands and legs while muti-lating the body, told Saturday Sun gathered
that the late Nwafor Nnalue was living in Damaturu, Yobe State with
his family until they were forced to relocate to Anambra State as a
result of the Boko Haram insur-gency. It was also learnt that the
suspect, Chinedu was brought up in Yobe State before he travelled to
South Africa and re-turned to join his family in the state where he
eventually married an indigene.
Trouble, however, started after the en-tire family fled Yobe State and
Chinelu's wife refused to move with her two children along with the
Nnalues to Anambra.
Soon after settling down in Anambra State, it was further gathered
that Chinedu began to pester his father to allow him re-turn to Yobe
to join his wife and two kids.
The conflict got to a head on January 23, 2015, when the suspect
allegedly wait-ed for his mother, Mary and sister to go to the farm
and thereafter went to his father where he was sleeping and butchered
him.
Giving an insight into the incident, Mrs. Mary Nnalue said: "My late
husband and my children were all living in Yobe State and it was
because of the Boko Haram in-surgency that we relocated back to
Anam-bra State in 2006. My son, Chinedu Nnal-ue went to South Africa
and later returned and joined us in Yobe State after which we all
returned to Anambra State.
"Chinedu married a Hausa lady who has two children for him and she was
carrying another pregnancy. She didn't return with us to Anambra State
because her parents refused to release her. This has led to a frequent
conflict between my son and my husband but my husband refused him
be-cause of fear of Boko Haram. On the day of the incident, I saw my
son, Chinedu sitting in his room and I asked him why he didn't go for
the morning mass and he didn't give any reason.
"I went to the farm with my daughter and we got to know that Chinedu
picked the cutlass which has been in his room for a long time and went
upstairs to kill his fa-ther. It was the shout of my late husband that
made us to rush back from the farm and when we got upstairs, Chinedu
wanted to matchet his sister but she escaped."
Sounding unrepentant, the suspect told Saturday Sun: "I had to kill my
father be-cause he refused to give me permission to go back to Yobe to
see my wife and two children who are still living in Damaturu. My wife
is also heavy with pregnancy and I felt there is need for me to go and
see her, but he refused, saying he didn't want to lose me to Boko
Haram."
He said he was a Muslim when he was in Yobe State but returned to his
original religion, Christianity when he relocated with his parents to
Anambra.
"My father took me to a herbalist who told us that I should not go
back to Yobe State. I used to see my father in my dream disturbing me
not to go back to Yobe State because of Boko Haram and because of this
I had to kill him", he said.
CP Karma disclosed that the police had recovered the cutlass used by
Chinedu to kill his father and that he would soon be charged to court
for murder.
--SunNewsOnline
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