5-year-old Macheted to Death in Ibadan

Ololade Adeyanju/

A five-year-old boy was macheted to death by yet-to-be-identified persons today in Akinyele local government area, in Ibadan, Oyo State capital.

Nigerian Tribune reports that shortly after this morning’s rainfall, the deceased, identified simply as Mujeeb, had gone to the back of his parents’ house in Tose area to defecate when he was attacked by the assailants.

“When the rain subsided, he told his older sibling that he wanted to go and defecate. The older sibling opened the back door for him to go defecate.

“Had I known I would have asked him to defecate in the front of the house. Suddenly, he cried out, “Mummy, Mummy”. His older sibling and I rushed out to the backyard but we didn’t see him initially.

“Then I checked beside the bush and found him macheted. He hadn’t died when we got there. So, people took him from my hand to take him to the hospital but he later died,” Mujeeb’s mother said.

Mujeeb’s killing follows three other recent cases, including that of Grace Oshiagwu, Barakat Bello and Azeezat Shomuyiwa, in the same Akinyele Local Government Area.