I usually steal N50 to buy food, boy beaten to death by father told neighbour

The10-year-old Adekoya Wariz, who was beaten to death by his
father in Ijebu-Igbo area of Ogun State, once told a neighbour,
Baba Olaolu, that he usually stole N50 from his step-mother’s
handbag because he needed it to buy gari and groundnut, as he
was always denied food.

According to Olaolu, Wariz’s step-mother would tell his father that the money Wariz stole was N200 or more, resulting in constant beating, without getting a chance to tell his side of the story.

Meanwhile, Wariz’s 37-year-old father, Rasaq Adekoya, has
expressed regret, saying his intention was not to kill him.

Adekoya, a Muslim cleric, told detectives at the homicide section of the Ogun State Criminal Investigations and Intelligence
Department, CIID, Eleweran, Abeokuta, that his son, Wariz,
slumped while he was beating him, over an allegation that he stole a phone at a social function.

He also accused his late son of always stealing his step-mother’s money.

Vanguard gathered that Rasaq got married to a second wife, after separating from his first wife and mother of late Wariz.

Neighbours alleged that late Wariz, a primary school pupil, had
been subjected to battering, at the slightest provocation, from his father who always accused him of stealing his wife’s money.

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