In what is becoming one death too many, a five year old boy, Mojeeb Tirimisiyu, was reportedly macheted to death by unknown assailants at Tode area of Akinyele Local Government Area of Ibadan, capital of Oyo State on Monday, June 22, 2020.
According to information gathered, the boy had gone to the backyard to defecate after the heavy downpour on Monday morning, but unknown to him an assailant was lurking there.
Mojeeb was struck on the head with what was likely to be a cutlass and the assailant escaped.
When his mother heard his cry, she ran outside to look for him but met him with a big gash in the head in his pool of blood.
She narrated, “When the rain subsided, he told his older sibling that he wanted to go and defecate. The older sibling had opened the back door for him.
“Had I known I would have asked him to defecate in the front of the house. Suddenly, he cried out, “Mummy, Mummy”. His older sibling and I rushed out to the backyard but we didn’t see him initially.
“Then I checked beside the bush and found him macheted. He had not died when we got there. So, people took him from my hand to take him to the hospital but he later died”.
This is the fourth murder recorded in Akinyele local government in the last three weeks following the murder of Barakat Bello, Azeezat Shomuyiwa and Grace Oshiagwu.
The State Police Public Relations Office, Gbenga Fadeyi, who said that the Police is on top of the matter and the assailants will soon be apprehended, stated, “At about 2p.m. of June 22, at Olorunsogo Area of Tose, Moniya, Akinyele Local Government Area of Oyo State, one Mojeeb Tirimisiyu ‘m’ aged five years, while defecating in a nearby bush close to the backyard of his parents house was attacked with a shovel on his head and sustained a serious injury.
“He died later as a result of injury sustained and corpse deposited in a hospital”.
“Investigation has since commenced while concerted efforts intensified to track this hoodlum that has been carrying out this heinous crime,’ Fadeyi said.
