Edet Umoren, a staff of
Favour Nursery and Primary School, Itamerin, Ijebu-Ife, said that at the
headquarters of Police Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Abeokuta, on Tuesday that he
had no justification for killing the 10-year-old girl, and that the scale of
the crime dawned on him after the murder.
The man murdered the
granddaughter of a school proprietor in Ijebu-Ife, Ogun State, for owing him
salary, says he was pushed to the crime by “family spell”.
Mr Umoren, 53, said he
struck Precious Adeji with a machete and left her to bleed to death just metres
outside the school premises.
He fled the scene of the
attack before he would later be arrested by the police.
Mr Umoren said a spell on
his family may have been responsible for the killing, as his older brother, a
former police officer, had in 1999 “accidentally” killed an innocent man before
his dismissal from the force.
“I think I am under a curse
and the spell might have been placed on our family, because my elder brother
who was a police (officer) before being dismissed, faced similar problem,
following an accidental discharge which claimed the life of an innocent man in
1999,” he said.
A father of three, Mr
Umoren said he believed he was “spiritually remote controlled”, and that he
regretted killing the girl. He said he was ready to face the consequences of
his actions.
“It is true the school
management is owing me salaries, but that was not enough for me to have killed.
But I don’t know what ran over me I just took a cutlass from the school and
went to attack the child.
“I cut her and while
bleeding I took off, only to later realise the magnitude of crime committed,”
the man narrated.
“This is a spiritual
problem, I can’t understand, I don’t even know how I got to kill the girl. I
know the school is owing me, but it’s not enough justification for me to kill,
if not spiritual forces.”
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The man need to be checked into the hospital before trial
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