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Itunuoluwa Adesitmi is the son of an ICT advisor,Mr Michael Adesitimi, who was just lately murdered in his residence at Okuta Elerinla Quarters, Akure, Ondo State. The younger graduate tells PETER DADA the circumstances surrounding his father’s dying, stressing that he and his mom now reside in concern
ARe you the primary little one of the late Mr Michael Adesitimi?
I’m his first son.
What do you do for a dwelling?
I simply completed from the Ekiti State College, Ado Ekiti.
The place have been you on the day of the assault that led to your dad’s dying?
On that day, I used to be with a pal of mine, whom we completed from identical secondary college at Alagbaka extension space. My mum known as me round 11:30am and instructed me that the police introduced her and my dad to the College of Medical Sciences Instructing Hospital, Akure. She stated my dad had died. I rushed out and received a motorbike to take me to the hospital.On attending to the hospital, I met my dad in a pool of blood.
What did your mum inform you occurred to your dad?
She stated they have been each at house round 7.30pm on that Saturday.She went to the kitchen, ready the dinner, they ate and have been later in the lounge watching TV. I feel they heard knocks on the gate and my dad went out to examine who was there. We used to have a gate-man however he left. He stated his spouse had a child and he left.
As dad went out, my mum tried to peep by the window to know who was knocking. I do know very effectively that my dad was very security-conscious and he wouldn’t have opened the gate for simply anybody if he couldn’t inform who it was by their voice. We’ve all turn into notably security-conscious after my youthful sister was killed in January this yr. The assailants jumped by the window to kill her. So, since then now we have at all times been security-conscious. Since that incident occurred, we made it a behavior to go spherical the home like 3 times, checking to make certain nobody was lurking round.
Truly, I not stick with them. Dad and mum stayed alone. I solely come to go to them from time to time. So,on that night time, my mum stated my dad opened the gate and instantly he did, the individuals on the gate forcefully received in and surrounded him. Considered one of them had a gun, whereas the opposite carried a bag.
What number of of them did your mum see?
She stated she noticed two individuals however couldn’t see their faces due to the space and since it was within the night time. She stated whereas they have been approaching the door into the home, they have been asking my dad: ‘The place are the paperwork?’ And instantly she heard that, she needed to tiptoe to the yard by the backdoor and soar over the fence to flee into our neighbour’s compound. When she received to the opposite facet, she alerted the neighbours, they usually known as the police instantly. Some policemen got here however they didn’t enter the home. They took my mum again to Okuta Elerinla Police Station, which isn’t removed from our home, to get her assertion. After they received again to our home, the assailants had already left. They discovered my dad in a pool of blood. He was hacked to dying by these individuals.
Which paperwork do you assume the assailants have been asking your dad for?
My dad doesn’t have any home in Akure. The one place we’ve been having problems with paperwork with somebody is in Ibadan. My dad was in Ibadan final month the place he introduced the paperwork on the workplace of the state’s commissioner in control of land. My dad introduced the C of O. The federal government had justified our case in Ibadan; they stated we’re the rightful proprietor of the land. My dad known as me the week earlier than the assault and stated he was in search of N600,000 in order that the federal government may go destroy all the things constructed on the land. We learnt any individual had already offered the land to a different individual.That was why my dad and mum went to Ibadan in September. Since then, that they had been house, attempting to search for the cash that authorities demanded to place issues so as. Just lately, individuals from Ibadan known as us to say that they had began engaged on the land. The land is alongside Eleyele-Sango Highway.
Have you ever additionally been to the land?
After all, sure, however I can’t go to Ibadan proper now. We’ve individuals over there serving to us on the difficulty and the federal government has already taken over the land.
Past the difficulty of land, do you assume your dad had any disagreement with some individuals?
I don’t know if my dad had points with any household or associates as a result of he didn’t focus on household points with me. One factor I do know is that my dad wouldn’t have opened the gate if he didn’t recognise or know who was there. There have to be somebody among the many assistants that my dad knew or recognised earlier than he determined to open the gate.
What steps have the police taken on the case?
I feel they’re delaying issues. We’ve not heard something critical from the police. I would like them to take this matter significantly and I would like the federal government to assist us as a result of they (the killers) are after us and we don’t know who their subsequent goal is.
My youthful sister and pop have been killed this yr in related circumstances. All of the obligations at the moment are on me. How do I cope? What do they need me to do? Going to the police, they’ll ask me to deliver this and that. The police aren’t taking the required steps. These individuals (killers) are not able to cease as a result of they’re after one thing and I do know that they haven’t but received it. I do know my dad wouldn’t have given them what they have been in search of.
Nobody has any paperwork; the paperwork are with authorities, so I don’t know what they’re in search of. I don’t know who’s working hand in hand with them. I don’t know what I need to do once more; I’ve known as on everybody I can. We simply want the federal government and the safety companies to do one thing about this matter as a result of this can be a critical matter. The homicide case of my sister was in January, 2022 and now my dad in October 2022. We live in concern now. We would like justice; we wish safety.
What have the police came upon about your sister’s assassination?
On the State CID right here in Akure, they stated they arrested two individuals they usually stated these persons are in jail however these suspects are nonetheless claiming they don’t know something about it, though they (police) caught them with my sister’s cellphone. They claimed that they noticed the cellphone on the highway. We have been in a position to monitor them with the IMEI (Worldwide Cellular Tools Id) on the cellphone.
Did the assailants take something away from your own home on the night time they killed your dad?
They didn’t take something; they didn’t ransack the home. They didn’t take my dad’s cellphone; the cellphone is with me. My dad prevented them from going inside the home as a result of he didn’t need them to get to the place my mum was, not understanding that my mum had gone out by then backdoor.
You assume your dad struggled with the assailants?
Sure, that was what occurred. They held him down and stabbed him. There was no gunshot harm on him. He was stabbed; he had a lower in his mouth. There have been about seven machete cuts on his head and one on his face.
What sort of an individual was your dad?
My dad was a really clever, sturdy, hard-working man. He was additionally a faithful and God-fearing man. He wouldn’t combat anybody. Since I had grown to know my daddy, he didn’t become involved in any shady deal. He was a dependable man and he didn’t lie about something. He targeted on no matter he needed to do.
What was his occupation?
He was a farmer. He was self-employed.He had his private farm in the home, which is on three plots of land. He had his farm, rabbits and chickens in the home. He was additionally an ICT advisor and a pc engineer. He fastened defective computer systems for individuals. He was not into politics.
