By Tola Gbadamosi

Nine months after his 20 – year – old daughter, Ebunoluwa Adesitimi was gruesomely murdered, his father a 55-year-old Information Communication Technology (ICT) Consultant, Mr Michael Banjo Adesitimi has been hacked to death in his residence, at Okuta Elerinla Estate, Akure.

The Hope gathered that Mr Michael Banjo Adesitimi, was with his wife, Mrs Mercy Abosede Adesitimi relaxing at about 9:00 pm, when two men knocked at their gate.

According to report, late Adesitimi and his wife wondered who could be knocking at the late hour even when they were not expecting any visitor.

“While Mr Adesitimi engaged the unknown visitors through the gate, his wife, Mercy, was said to be peeping from the window as she overheard the men asking her husband “where is the document?”.

Upon investigation, it was gathered that the unwanted visitors were asking the late technologist questions on the whereabouts of the document of a particular disputed piece of land that had been dragged for over 20 years in Ibadan and another case that has been in an Ibadan Court for six years.

It was gathered that, when Mr Adesitimi was not yielding to the men’s demand, he was struck with an axe on his head, a situation which made the frightened wife escaped through the back door of their house for fear of being attacked too.

Narrating to The Hope, the eldest son of the deceased, a 29-year-old Atinu Adesitimi who resides in Alagbaka, Akure, said “my parents were at home that evening when they heard a bang at the gate at about 9pm.

“Under normal circumstance, we were very conscious about security after the death of my younger sister.

“According to my mother who was watching the scenario through the window, said she saw two people who forced themselves into the compound through the gate.

“According to her, their faces were not clearly seen because the place was dark. All that she saw was the gun in the hand of one of the men who escorted my dad back into the main building which was a little distance from the gate.

“She overheard the men asking my father, “Where is the document?”

“My mum, who witnessed what was happening, took to her heels through the back door to our neighbour’s house where she was able to call policemen. The policemen at the checkpoint, rather than follow us to our house to save the situation, took us back to their station where we wasted time.

“By the time my mum and the policemen returned to the house, my father was almost dead, and later gave up the ghost on the way to the hospital,” he lamented.

Speaking further on the land dispute, the deceased son said “My dad had earlier told me that there have been a case of land dispute between himself and some men that encroached on his grandmother’s land and that the case has been in court for six years.

“That is the only document my father told me about,” he stated.

Shedding more light on the circumstances surrounding his sister’s death, he said findings revealed that those who killed her were also looking for the paper of my father’s seven plots of land in Ibadan which the court had already given to my father because he was in possession of the original documents of the land.

He added that an Ibadan Court and the Ministry of Lands and Housing have already given judgment over the disputed plots of land in favour of my father last month.

Confirming the incident, the Police Public Relations Officer, SP Fumilayo Odunlana disclosed that the police met the man in the pool of his blood and assisted him to the hospital, but unfortunately, he died.

“We can’t tell how it happened or how he was hacked to death as investigation is fully in top gear on the issue.

The PPRO advised anyone with useful information concerning the death of the man to come up with it.