Joseph Ojo, 64, has revealed the reason he set his five
stepchildren ablaze.
Ojo, who was paraded at the state headquarters of the
Nigeria Police in Akure, Ondo State, confessed that his stepchildren used to
join their mother to beat him.
The suspect also disclosed that his wife and the
stepchildren were in the habit of starving him, despite being the one giving
the money for feeding.
According to him, the situation infuriated him, after which he siphoned petrol from his chainsaw (felling machine) and poured it in the children’s room before setting it ablaze.
Ojo had on Saturday set the room where the stepchildren were
sleeping on fire at his residence at Fagun, Ondo town, headquarters of Ondo
West Local Government.
The Police Public Relations Officer in the State, Funmi
Odunlami, disclosed that three of the five children had died due to the
injuries sustained in the incident.
Odunlami added that Ojo had kept his twins in another room
before carrying out the act.
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