Father Breaks His Children’s Bones With Hammer,Gets Arrested

Police in Okigwe Local Government Area of Imo State have arrested a man who broke his two children’s bones and tortured them for their ‘mother’s sins.’

The man reportedly kept his children in chains, broke one of the children’s fingers with a hammer and poured salt in their bleeding wounds.

The incident which was first posted by the National Human Right Commission (NHRC) on its Twitter handle, showed the man in a video, pouring pepper and salt on the children’s wounds as they sat crying outside a shop.

“The perpetrator said he was doing it to punish the children for ‘what their mother did’”, the NHRC tweeted.

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Police spokesman Orlando Okwukwu confirmed the incident, saying that the man has been arrested.

In another story, It was a pandemonium in Umuezegoro kindred in Umuchiana in Anambra State, when a young man identified as Timothy Ezeofor allegedly axed his father to death yesterday.

According to the Anambra state command’s public relations officer, SP Haruna Mohammed, the suspect hacked the father to death due to a little disagreement.

Mr Timothy Ezeofor, male, of Umuezegoro Kindred, Unuchiana village, reported at Aguata Police Station that at about 8:am of the same day, his elder brother, namely Godwin Ezeofor, ‘m’, aged 70, of the same address, was allegedly murdered by his son, one Chigorom Ezeofor, ‘m’, aged about 37, of the same address, using an axe.

“The complainant added that the suspect has been mentally ill for the past eight years.”

SP Mohammed said that as a result, police operatives attached to Aguata Division, led by the divisonal police officer, CSP Ayeni Oluwadare, mobilised to the scene, and photographed the victim before rushing him to the hospital where he was certified d**d by a medical doctor.

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