Vanguard report:
Nigerian US Army deserter, Allen Williams Abiodun, 52, who was
arrested on February 20, 2013, for allegedly killing his younger
brother, a Merchant Navy personnel in Imude community, Oto Awori Local
Government area of Lagos, has finally opened up on why he committed the
dastardly act.
The six-footer confessed to Crime Alert that he stabbed the deceased,
Allen Olawale Ayetimi, 24, to death, following continuous threat on his
life by Olawale.
The late Olawale was reportedly sleeping when Williams allegedly stabbed him in the head, neck and jugular.
After
allegedly committing the devilish deed, Williams reportedly dumped
Olawale’s remains in an uncompleted building foundation behind their
compound and,covered it with leaves.
Report said he thereafter, took his late brother’s ATM card, Merchant Navy uniform and phone.
Crime
Alert gathered that the deceased only returned from an official trip to
Port Harcourt at about 11pm that fateful day. Although, he was based in
Port Harcourt, Rivers State, his mission to Lagos, as reliably
gathered, was to settle a score between his elder brother and their
mother.
On arrival,the late Olawale reportedly washed his uniform,
took his bath and shared a brief moment with his mother and siblings in
the shop they were confined to,during which he informed them of his
intention to convince his brother to accept them back to the main
building,unaware that he would never live to see his mission
accomplished.
Before retiring to the bedroom which he shared with
his elder brother, Olawale was said to have instructed one of his
sisters to boil water for him to bath the next morning.
Apprehension
set in next day, after his sister went to inform him that the hot water
was ready, only to discover his blood-stained clothes on the floor
without any sight of him. As she was about to leave, she reportedly met
Williams, who informed her that Olawale had gone to the bank.
Unsure of what to do, she reportedly alerted her mother who raised alarm that created a scene in front of the building.
A
neighbour who claimed to have seen Williams dragging what he suspected
to be Olawale’s body into the bush told Crime Alert: “I came out at
about 1 am to ease myself, only to notice some movements. Out of
curiosity, I peeped to see what it was, only to find Williams dragging
something on the floor.
“When I finished from the toilet, he was
returning from where he went. I noticed his hands were stained with
blood and out of curiosity, I asked where the blood came from and he
said he just killed a goat. Since I did not suspect anything, I went
inside to sleep. It was when I heard a shout from their compound in the
morning that I was compelled to disclose what happened.”
This revelation reportedly led to William’s arrest after which he was handed over to the police.
However
in this interview with Crime Alert at the State Criminal Investigations
Department, Yaba, Monday, where he was paraded alongside some robbery
suspects that have been terrorizing Lagos, it was observed that Williams
was not coherent with his words. He simply stated that the deceased was
never his brother.
According to him, “He is not my brother. He
is Ogunmadede’s son. What happened on that very day was that as I was in
my room at midnight, somebody pointed a torch light in my face. And I
said hey man, you know you have been threatening me. The next thing I
did was to reach for a cutlass. I moved over and stabbed him in the head
in order to act safe. It did not look easy for me to kill him”
Asked
why he chased his mother and siblings from the main building, he denied
that stating: “ I am a US soldier for your information. I only escaped
and returned home in 1992 because of a lady I fell in love with from the
Ogunmade family in Ondo State. But when I returned, she dumped me and I
could not go back”.
Back to the question about his mother, he
said, “I did not chase my mother away. In fact, she was in her office in
Ikeja when the incident occurred”.
Asked how that was possible
since he said the incident occurred at midnight, he simply stared at
this reporter. At a point, he started behaving funny like one who is
mentally deranged, saying things that were not relevant to the issue at
hand.
Investigation carried out in his community revealed that he
was feigning to be mentally deranged, in order to be let off the hook.
One
of his relatives who spoke on condition of anonymity said: “ He has
never had any mental problem since I knew him. He is just pretending so
that one will think he is a mad man”.
Meanwhile, his mother and
siblings are currently gripped with fear over the possibility of
Williams’ release. But police operatives assured they would conduct a
test on him to ascertain his mental state before charging him to court.
