CITIZENS COMPASS —A 20-year-old ‘Yahoo Boy’, Daniel Bamidele, has allegedly stabbed his parents over his mother’s refusal to reveal her real name, which was required to perfect a ritual plan for riches.
The 200-level student of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Oyo State, was said to have stabbed them using a machete.
The incident at Bamideles’ Apabielesin home in Ibadan, Oyo State.
However, the mother, Titilayo, managed to escape and raised an alarm which attracted sympathisers to the scene.
Daniel was said to be disarmed and was apprehended.
Daniel said his parents were aware of his involvement in cybercrime, from which he claimed to have built a three-bedroom bungalow.
He accused his mother and elder brother of swindling N2.5 million out of the proceeds of cybercrime.
According to him, frustration arose over his mother providing a fake name, which rendered his ritual soap, which he said was given to him by a white garment church priest, ineffective. The soap, he added, was intended to bring good fortune but required his mother’s real name for activation.
“I purposely lured my mother from a church programme she was attending, and as soon as we arrived home, I attacked her with a knife and was already inflicting cuts on her body when my father tried to save her from me,” he said.
“I attacked my father too because if I had not stabbed both of them, they would have succeeded in killing me.”
I am a 200-level student of LAUTECH (Ladoke Akintola University of Technology) and I have built a three-bedroom bungalow from the money I made from doing Yahoo business.
I am angry with my parents, particularly my mother, for giving me a fake name instead of her real name.
“There is a particular black magic soap that I have been using lately. The soap was given to me by the priest of a white garment church named Mathew.
“I was the one who bought a generator for Pastor Mathew’s church around Ona Grammar School in Ogbomosho.
“The soap was meant to bring me good fortune, but there was the need for me to call my mother’s name into it before it could work.
“My mother told me that her name is Titilayo. But when I called the name into the soap, it did not work. Hence, I got angry and decided to stab her.”
Titilayo, however, denied receiving any money from Daniel.
She recounted being called to pick him up from Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) due to his mental health issues. After taking native medicine given by his father, Daniel’s condition seemed to worsen, leading to the assault.
The mother said, “When we got home, his father brought a native medicine home and gave it to him. He slept off after taking the medicine.
“However, when he woke up, he demanded the whereabouts of his phone and I told him I did not take his phone. He landed several blows on me.
“He is a liar; I did not collect any money from him.”
Daniel’s father, on the other hand, blamed his wife for indulging their son’s fraudulent activities and not informing him about the house construction funded by cybercrime.
—GWG
