A 47-year-old man, Blessing Olumakinde, has been sentenced to death by an Ado Ekiti High Court on Tuesday for killing his father, Benson Egunlae, over his inheritance.
Handing down the sentence, the state Chief Judge, Justice Ayodeji Daramola, said the evidence before the court substantiated the allegation against the accused and found him guilty of murder.
Justice Daramola opined that the prosecution had proved the case beyond reasonable doubt hence the accused should be hanged by the neck until life goes out of him.
The slain father of the accused had six wives and 18 children who were locked on the sharing of his parcels of land.
Dissatisfied with the share allotted to him, Blessing, 47, reportedly traced his father and attacked him with cutlass and axe killing him in the process and ran away.
