Police reacts as ‘mentally challenged’’ man kills mother, set her body ablaze

The spokesperson of the Delta state police command, Bright Edafe has queried parents who keep their mentally challenged children in their homes.

 According to Edafe via the microblogging platform, X formerly Twitter on Wednesday, such children in most of the cases, he had witnessed, end up killing their parents.

So this young man of 25 years, allegedly killed his mum with an axe and set her body ablaze, then made away with her Sienna vehicle,” the police spokesman in Delta said on Wednesday on X.

“Rumour has it that the suspect might be mentally deranged. Well, that’s for the court and medical doctors to determine,”Edafe added.

The police officer noted that, however, “Why keep a child who has a mental issue at home instead of a psychiatric home?”

He pointed out that “oftentimes, these mentally deranged children end up killing their parents and the people who have been pampering and taking care of them.”