Hakeem was known in his community as a peaceful man. But the notion changed on Tuesday, January 7, 2014 when he engaged his uncle in a fight to death.
The serenity usually witnessed at Sagamu area of Ogun State recently gave way to confusion and pandemonium as a bricklayer descended on his uncle and inflicted deep machete cuts on him. The man, identified simply as Hakeem engaged his aged uncle, Mr. Oloko, in a fierce fight over a property allegedly bequeathed to him by his father.
Hakeem, 32, is based in Ilorin where he has been living since 2010 with his wife and two daughters after the death of his parents that year. He returned to his ancestral home around Ilisan, Ogun State, to celebrate the last Yuletide with his extended family.
It was gathered that that was Hakeem’s first trip to his root after he left home in 2010. Hakeem’s late father, a well known merchant in the community, it was gathered, had left an estate and several properties for his only son.
It was also gathered that Oloko, Hakeem’s uncle, had prevented the latter from taking possession of any of the property left for him by his father claiming that the deceased was indebted to him to the tune of a large sum of money. Since he was not privy to the agreement between his late father and his own brother, Hakeem reportedly left everything in care of his uncle and travelled to Ilorin where he had since settled down.
But last December, Hakeem was back in his ancestral community apparently to celebrate the Yuletide but he was shocked to discover how his uncle had taken over and also squandered his entire father’s property.
It was reported that Oloko had turned himself to the caretaker of Hakeem’s father’s one storey building at Sagamu and had never remitted any amount to him. By the time Hakeem came back to the community for the last festive period, Oloko was reported to have travelled to Lagos and so Hakeem decided to wait for his return.
It was further gathered that before his uncle’s return, Hakeem had engaged some of the tenants in his father’s Sagamu house and threatened to eject them if they further pay their rents to his uncle again.
During a heated argument with the tenants, Hakeem reportedly forcefully ejected one of them, who reportedly claimed that he would only pay his rent to Oloko. It was gathered that on Tuesday, January 7, 2014, Oloko returned to discover that Hakeem had started re-organising his father’s property and he would not take kindly to the idea.
So, on that fateful day, Hakeem left his base early to meet his uncle hoping to trash out the whole matter. When he got there Oloko reportedly confronted him and demanded to know what he had been doing behind him.
The young man would not also take his uncle’s stance and total control of his own father’s property. Hakeem, in harsh tones, confronted his uncle and asked him to surrender all his father’s property in his care.
It was said that Hakeem even told his uncle that he was prepared and ready to oversee his own inheritance.
At that point, Oloko told the furious young man that his late father owed him a large amount of money and that he was taking over some of his property to recoup the money. He also warned Hakeem never to step into the house again. That probably was the last straw. Hakeem went berserk, engaging his uncle in fierce exchange of words.
“Uncle really went too far when he told me never to step my feet into my father’s house again. He claimed my father owed him an amount I, and no one in the family is aware of. Everyone knows that this man always came to my father for money when my father was alive, and now he is saying that the same man that was always giving him money owed him money,” Hakeem said on telephone.
In the ensuing argument, a fight broke out between the two men and in no time, the young man grabbed the uncle’s cutlass close by and inflicted several deep cuts on the man. Hakeem reportedly hurriedly arranged for a vehicle that conveyed the bleeding man to a hospital at Ijebu Ode.
Oloko, however, could not make it as he reportedly gave up the ghost at a Lagos hospital where he was taken to after the first treatment at Ijebu Ode. Arinola, his eldest daughter, in a telephone chat, confirmed the death of her father.
She claimed that she and her other siblings had warned their father to back off from his late brother’s property and allow the man’s son, Hakeem, take possession of same, but that he would not listen. Condemning the incident, Arinola says, “It was a big surprise to me when I received a call to say that my father and Hakeem fought over the matter. But how could he (Hakeem) had gone to the extent of macheting the old man.
There are law enforcement agents there to complain to. See what has happened now. The old man is dead.” When Oloko was pronounced dead, all attempts to speak with Hakeem again were futile as his mobile telephone was switched off.
culled from Nigeria Mirror
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