Ayobami Oyeleye, 30, is being held by the Ogun State Police Command after using a machete to sever his mother’s hands.
The woman’s head was claimed to have received a serious cut from the suspect.
According to reports, Oyeleye beat his 65-year-old mother Esther on Tuesday in the state’s Akibo village’s Obafemi Owode Local Government Area following an unspecified quarrel.
When they arrived at the residence, they saw Esther lying in a pool of blood with a stab wound to the back of her skull and her left and right hands severed.
Oyeleye was claimed to have been seen by the neighbors wielding a sharp cutlass while standing next to his mother.
Oyeleye also used the cutlass to inflict damage on the elderly woman’s head and legs, according to an eyewitness who spoke on the condition of anonymity due to the seriousness of the incident.
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