By Sunday Nwakanma
Abia state police command on Tuesday paraded a 27- year- old undergraduate of Madonna University, Chijioke Ezebuiro, for allegedly killing his 87-year-old father, Dr Emmanuel Ezebuiro, on June 30, this year, at Umuoriehi, Isingwu in Umuahia North local government area of the state.
The incident was reported to the police by one Ezebuiro Chimezie of the same address who said the deceased had been bed-ridden for some years.
Speaking with newsmen in Umuahia the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), ASP Geoffrey Ogbonna, who paraded the suspects, said Chijioke Ezebuiro was the prime suspect as he was the only person in the house at the time.
Chimezie, he said, had left him in the house to drop his children in school and that when he came back; he met the deceased on the ground in his own pool of blood and quickly called the deceased personal doctor who confirmed him dead.
He said: “After taking my bath as I was going towards my room I saw people screaming in my father’s room, so I decided to go inside to know what was happening there, when I went there I saw my brother and my cousin in my father’s room and dad on top of his bed.”
“I was shocked to see blood on his head. I was so scared I had to go down stairs to call one of my cousins. When I came back with him we were asking them what happened none of the told us anything. He told us to go down stairs the next thing was for me to see police coming to arrest me, took me to the police station, saying that I am a murderer.”
