[dropcap]B[/dropcap]enin – Twenty-one-year old boy, Akpobome Samuel who reportedly strangled his mother and had multiple sex with her corpse at Ologbo Community in Ikpoba-Okha Local Government Area of Edo State has revealed more details about why he committed the horrible act.
The suspect said that he killed his mother, Mrs. Christiana Ighoyivwi, 58, on October 29, 2018 and copulated with her lifeless body hoping that money would appear from the blues in the process.
He disclosed this while being paraded alongside 83 other suspects by the Edo State Police Command for various crimes, ranging from cultism, kidnapping, rape, armed robbery, murder and burglary in Benin City today.
Akpobome said he was only acting on the instructions of the native doctor whom he visited in Ologbo, Ikpoba-Okha Local Government Area of the state.
According to him, the native doctor told him that after killing his mother, he should sleep with her corpse in order to get rich and that he willingly complied with his instruction and killed her.
Akpobome who works in a pure water factory in Ologbo said he was caught by his grandmother who came to knock at his door having waited patiently for her (the deceased) to accompany her somewhere.
The suspect, who claimed he had only slept with the corpse once, before being caught said his grandmother raised the alarm that attracted the attention of the people around when she saw the lifeless body of his mother on the floor.
“The native doctor told me to kill my mother and sleep with her corpse but he did not tell me the number of days to sleep with her. He told me to keep her dead body inside the room for two days but I was caught when I could no longer keep it.
“As I was about coming out, I did not know that my grandmother was sitting outside.
“When I opened the door, my grandmother sighted the corpse inside the room and raised the alarm that drew the attention of the public.
“My mother did not offend me. I killed her because of the money”, he said.
