The 38-year-old Matthew Ifeanyichukwu Onadike, who was recently apprehended for killing his 80-year-old father, Pa Anthony Onadike, has claimed that he did it to fulfill his father’s request.
Matthew, who was detained by the Ogun State Community, Social Orientation and Safety Corps, also known by the codename So-Safe, and turned over to the Sango divisional headquarters of the Ogun State Police Command, claimed that his father had repeatedly told him that he wanted peace of mind, which Matthew mistook for the elder man requesting to be killed.
In a statement, So-Safe Corps described how its officers were contacted and informed that the suspect had killed his biological father, Pa Onadike, by inflicting multiple machete wounds on his head.
The doctor who treated him when he arrived at the hospital confirmed that the elderly man had passed away despite being taken urgently to a hospital.
Though he allegedly resisted being put under arrest, Matthew was eventually overcome and taken into custody.
His father’s refusal to give him the N70,000 he had with him since 2022, he claimed during the initial investigation, was what drove him to kill his father.
.
He claimed that his parents had told him to leave his job.
After quitting his job, though, his parents declined to support him.
“I used to work at Ajao Estate for a company.
My parents, however, asked me to quit my job and return home, which caused a problem.
My father visited me in Oshodi, Lagos, where I was residing in August 2021.
I was told to return home so he could rest.
I couldn’t understand why he wanted me to kill him, which made me very irate. I chased after him to exit my room as he ran.
When I was in that area, I stopped visiting our family’s home in Sango, Ogun State, and I avoided my father whenever I was there.
I would go another route if I saw him. I was only seeing my mother.
My mother instructed me to carry out my father’s request when I visited her one day.
When my father finally called my office after some time, I noticed some changes.
My landlady asked me to leave in September 2021 and instructed me not to pay house rent ever again.
There were arguments between me and the other tenants even though I had no debt to the landlady.
For eight years, I called that house in Oshodi home.
The salary I received from my employer also started to decline. I called my father and explained what I was seeing after I noticed all the changes. He claimed that he had instructed me to gather my possessions and go back home.
On December 31 of that year, my brother came over to help me pack.
When I first arrived at our home, my father wasn’t there; we exchanged hugs when he did. He brought up what he had discussed with me, almost starting a fight between us again.
I gave my father N20,000 in January 2022 so he could hold it for me.
I gave him an additional $50,000 in August.
Moreover, I left my mother with N 20,000. I had stopped working by that point.
Despite the fact that I was under a lot of pressure, my father insisted that I comply with his requests.
My father refused to give me the money I requested in November 2022 so that I could start selling robber shoes. I became aware that he wanted me to kill him in January of this year. I called my mother one day to talk about the troubling trend in our family.
My elder brother had died.
In order to provoke me, she claimed to have knowledge of my father’s request and claimed that’s why he refused to give me my money. Later, she continued to deny that I had given my father the money. I was sick of lounging around the house. I went to a bakery to work, but my mother told the owner to fire me.
Considering that she would be taking care of my needs, she advised me to stay at home.
I was feeling pressure by that point.
When I requested money, it was not given to me and I was not permitted to work.
My father and I got into a fight, and he was badly hurt.
He claimed that killing him was what he really wanted, so wounding him just wasn’t good enough.
To report what was happening, I went to the Sango police station.
My father wanted me to kill him, I shouted to the police as I stood outside.
But they took me to Eleweran in Abeokuta instead of letting me in.
When we failed to run into the person the police had taken me to, I returned home.
The plantain I had gone to cut in our backyard farm was in my room on August 28.
Selling it would have allowed me to buy food. Unfortunately, I failed to find a buyer.
My mother gave me N700 when I asked her for money to buy food. I had cut two bunches of plantains when my father got home, and he noticed that. He questioned me as to why I took action without telling him.
He declared he would take a cutlass and chop down every plantain tree. He advised me to murder him, just as he had been doing.
I was holding him while we dragged out the matter, but I eventually went to my room.
While I was still there, my father began pounding on the door of my room and yelling at me to come outside and kill him.
At that point, I picked up the cutlass I’d used to chop the plantain and began cutting him with a machete.
Local residents hurried to our house after hearing what was happening.
When the residents of the neighborhood asked me to come out, I locked the backyard door.
They insisted that I meet them outside, so I did. So Safe officers were summoned in this manner, and I was then taken into custody.
“.
The suspect will be presented in court as soon as the investigation is finished, according to the Ogun State Police Command.
.
