Father Of 5 Beaten To Death In Ibadan By Landlord’s Sons

Father of five, Mumini Muritala, 40,
who lived at Omilabu Area of Odinjo,
was reportedly beaten to death on
Friday night, following a quarrel
between him and his landlord’s son,
Yusuf Adegbayi, Sunday Tribune has
learnt.
Wife of the deceased, Mrs Shakirat
Muritala, who spoke with Sunday
Tribune at a nearby hospital, said
that she had just sent her daughter,
Barakat, out to buy her food, when
the landlord’s sons, Yusuf and his
brother, Habeeb Adegbayi, locked the
main door to the house around 9.pm,
an action which later caused uproar
between her and the landlord’s sons.
“When my husband and daughter
came back home, Yusuf and Habeeb
went inside their rooms, but my
husband went to them to enquire
why they locked the door so quickly.

“This resulted in a heated argument
and Yusuf slapped my husband. My
husband wanted to retaliate, but the
two boys pounced on him and beat
him blue abd black.
“Later, Yusuf came back and hit my
husband with an occultic ring he
said he would use on him. Suddenly,
my husband turned around and fell
on the ground. We rushed him to the
hospital, but he later gave up,” the
wife said.
However, when the Police Public
Relations Officer (PPRO) of Oyo State
was contacted, he told Sunday
Tribune that the suspect had fled, but
efforts were ongoing to nab him,
while his father, the landlord, was in
police custody at the Idi Aro police
station, from where the case would
be transferred to the State Criminial
and Intelligence Department for
discrete investigation.
He, however, used the opportunity to
warn those who would like to engage
in criminal acts to desist henceforth.

Source: Sunday Tribune