A teenager, Samuel Akpobome Emobor arrested and paraded by the Edo State Police Command for allegedly killing his mother, said he committed the act to make money.
According to him, he also had intercourse with the mother’s corpse as he had been instructed by a native doctor who assured him doing so would make him rich.
Emobor who hails from Oghara in Delta State, told newsmen on Wednesday that he strangled his mother, Christiana Ighoyivwi, while she was asleep in her residence on Market Road, Ologbo, Ikpoba-Okha Local Government Area of the State and while trying to dispose of the body, was caught by his grandmother.
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“I wanted to use her for money rituals. I strangled her; she was sleeping when I strangled her at about 5am. It was one man called One Love that told me to use my mother for money ritual. He promised to give me N50, 000 if I killed my mother and sleep with her. He said I should cut my mother’s ear and fingers and bring them to him. I work in a pure water factory.
“He told me to keep her corpse for two days, but he did not tell me the number of days to sleep with her. It was only once that I slept with the corpse. My mother did not offend me. I killed her because of money.
“I could not find a place to keep the corpse. As I was about coming out, I did not know that my grandmother was sitting outside.
“When I opened the door, my grandmother saw the corpse inside the room and raised the alarm that drew the attention of neighbours.”