A 10-year-old, Goodness Oshodi, has buried alive his stepbrother
A 10-year-old, Goodness Oshodi, has buried alive his stepbrother, Friday Oshodi, for allegedly stealing their mother’s N1,000.
The elder brother, who has been arrested by the police, said he took the action following the directive of his mother.
According to a trending video, the incident occurred on Tuesday evening at Apamisede, a community in Lokoja, the Kogi State capital.Goodness was however lucky as good Samaritans were still able to exhume him aliveWhen he was asked why he decided to bury his brother alive, Friday said he was only carrying out the instructions of his mother to punish Friday for stealing her N1,000.
He claimed that at the time of the rescue of Goodness, their mum was in the church.
Confirming the incident and arrest of Friday, the spokesman of the Kogi State Police Command, William Aya, said he was undergoing interrogation.
Aya, a Superintendent of Police, said: “Yes, we are aware.
“The boy has been arrested, investigation is ongoing as to why and how such thing could happened
Discipline for boys should start at 5 years or earlier depending on family set up. Discipline is tied to family set up meaning if a family is well set up with daily food on the table and ample resources for schooling then it becomes a lot easier to cane the child or rebuke him verbally depending on nature of offense or tell him to kneel down stuff. Like the 1000 stolen what was it used for? Who told him to steal it? Did he have school peer groups? Why could he first not tell the mother he had a need? Most children if they are brought up well will always say daddy buy me so and so item! Then the dad will say either yes or no", so was the father missing in the picture? It is duty to discipline the boys,most boys fear their father more than their mother.
ReplyDeleteAll the same cane or deprivation of some toy should have served enough lesson for truancy rather than burying the son alive method unless he is a Muslim who wanted to experiment on Sharia law ,his own adapted version