Samson
By Victory Oghene
Abuse of drugs has taken its tool on a 23-year-old boy, simply identified as Samson, as he stabbed his mother to death after taking drugs.
Samson has been arrested by operatives of the Delta State police for committing murder in Obiaruku, Delta State.
Sources squealed that Samson went to Asaba, the state capital of Delta, to learn a trade after his secondary school but was sent back a few months later after joining a group of boys involved in drugs, which affected his brain.
“Yes Samson’s mother sent him to Asaba to learn a trade but he joined some vad boys who were into drugs and his master sent him back to Obiaruku. On arrival, his mother took him to a native mental health facility for treatment.
The source continued “They live on Jehovah Street, Obiedike Obiaruku, close to my shop.
“The mother is in her 50s, around 5 a.m., the mother came outside and saw her son, Samson, smoking. She confronted him, telling him it was too early.
“Perhaps she shouted at him. Then Samson went inside, brought out a knife, and stabbed his mother. The elder brother, who is a sickle cell patient, was the one who shouted, which made people enter the compound because the gate of the compound was still locked at the time.”
The source further said that operatives of the state police came to arrest Samson while he was standing close to the corpse of his mother.
A video showed some eyewitnesses pleading with Samson to drop the knife as they stood at the top of the building fence demarcating the compound from Samson’s house.
Samson was seen wearing boxers with no shirt on, while standing close to the corpse of his mother, who was lying in a pool of blood.
When contacted, the spokesman for the Delta State Police Command, SP Bright Edafe, said the suspect had been arrested.
