For allegedly being
stubborn, 10-year-old Aliyu Rabiu, has been sent to his early grave by his
father.
The father, 43-year-old Rabiu Yusuf, a resident
of Maina Maji in Alkaleri Local Government Area of Bauchi State, told journalists, on Monday, at
the Bauchi State Police Command headquarters, in Bauchi, while being paraded
alongside other suspects by the police, that he tortured the boy to death due
to his stubbornness.
Yusuf, who said he never knew his action would
lead to the boy’s death, stated that he got infuriated with the deceased,
following his running away from his house to stay with his mother, who he had
divorced.
According to him, he had severally instructed the
boy to return home but he refused, saying he had to go and take him home and
chained him inside a room so that he would not run away.
“Trouble started when I divorced his mother and
married another wife. My son, Aliyu, followed his mother to her new home and I
was not in support of the arrangement.
“I called Aliyu several times to come back home
because I want him to be in my custody as his father, but he refused, so I went
to the mother’s home in annoyance and brought him back home.
“When I brought him back to my house, I chained
him and locked him up inside the room, so that he did not escape and go back to
his mother, but unfortunately he died,” Yusuf said.
Addressing journalists, the Police Public
Relations Officer (PPRO) in the state police command, Haruna Mohammed, informed
that Yusuf conspired with one Ismail Idris to kill the deceased.
According to the police spokesman, a Deputy
Superintendent of Police (DSP), Yusuf chained and detained the boy for a period
of 10 days, but he later fell sick as a result of the ill-treatment meted to
him by his father. He added that the boy was taken to Rimi Clinic in Bauchi,
where he died while receiving treatment.
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