Man nabbed for setting family house on fire killing 5 of his relatives

A 26-year-old suspect identified as Monday Daniel is now cooling his heels in police net after setting his family house located in Budo Alaka village in Kisi area of Oyo State on fire.

Five members of his family who were asleep in the house perished in the inferno.

Recounting the circumstances that led to Daniel’s action, an eyewitness who pleaded anonymity said the suspect had on the previous day approached a member of the family for some money to travel to an undisclosed destination but his request was turned down.

That his request was snubbed, according to the witness, prompted Daniel to take the law into his own hands as he came back in anger and allegedly set the house on fire in the early hours of Sunday.

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According to the Oyo Police Public Relations Officer, SP Adekunle Ajisebutu, five members of the family, four of them children, including an eight month old baby, namely Blessing Samuel Ode (3), Friday Samuel Ode ( 8 months), Mummy Ogbada ‘f’ (10), Daddy Ogbada (6) and Ogunma Ogbada (46) were all burnt to death.

Continuing, Ajisebutu said the suspect fled the scene of the incident which saw the survival of two other victims namely Samuel Daniel Ode (24) and Mariam Samuel Ode (21), who are both now receiving treatment at Muslim Hospital in Kisi, but was later nabbed by the police.

Ajisebutu also noted that the case of the suspect who confessed to the crime claiming he didn’t know what came over him when he set the house on fire, will soon be transferred to the Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, Iyaganku in Ibadan for further findings.

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