By Our Correspondent
HOW NAVAL OFFICER RETD. LT. COMMANDER ENGR. YUSUF WAS MURDERED BY HIS SON IN LAGOS
The sad end of the bubbling life of a retired Lieutenant Commander of the Nigerian Navy, Lt. Cdr. Engineer Yusuf who was murdered in his private room at Lagos a few days ago took a dramatic turn according an eye witness who claimed anonymity said that his only son who is in his early adult life allegedly demanded for the sum of One Million and five Hundred Thousand naira (N1.5m) from his father who refused to yield to his demand. What happened next was the fact that he murdered his father inside his home. Several arrangements were made by the retired Naval officer concerning how his only will travel overseas for greener pastures. The late Lieutenant Commander Engineer Yusuf who in 2015 served at the Nigerian Dockyard was expecting final payment of his retirement benefits.
In the interim, he went around and obtained a financial bank loan which he used to procure travel documents for his son. The late Naval commissioned Officer lost his first wife who begot two children a boy and a girl for him. He later remarried but never got other children from his new wife. On the day he was killed it was reported that his daughter left for another house where another woman gave birth. It was at that moment that the only son who got a girl impregnated but accepted by his late father took the keys to the house and hid them inside his pocket as he took turns in brutal macheting of his father. While this incident was going on, noise from the scene attracted neighbours who banged severally at the gate of the apartment. But Yusuf’s son told them to wait until he finishes what he was doing.
When he finally opened the gate for the neighbours, he quickly made a swift dash to scale the perimeter of the building but was caught and handed over to the Police.
The homicide incident must have been attributed to wrong upbringing of his only son who must have anticipated payment of his late father’s retirement benefits as a Commissioned Officer of the Nigerian Navy. Unknown to the assailant that his late father processed his documents at the Military pension Board MPB waiting for the commencement of the payment before he met his untimely death in the hands of his only son.
