A 20-year-old suspected Yahoo Boy, Daniel Bamidele, was apprehended on Thursday, January 25, after stabbing his parents.
Reported by The Nation, Daniel’s mother, Titilayo, ran out of their home in the Apabielesin area of Ibadan, Oyo State, with serious injuries. Her son had allegedly attacked both her and his father with a machete.
The commotion drew the attention of bystanders who rushed into the house, subdued Daniel, and disarmed him of the machete used in the attack.
After being restrained by neighbors and freed from his grip on his father, Daniel disclosed that he had been involved in cybercrime, commonly known as yahoo business, for some time. He claimed that his parents were aware he had built a three-bedroom bungalow with the proceeds.
Daniel explained that he had promised to establish a store for his mother, stocking it with goods to help her become a successful trader once he achieved a breakthrough. However, he accused his mother and elder brother of conspiring to defraud him of N2.5 million despite his commitment to fulfilling the promise.
He said;
“I purposely lured my mother from a church programme she was attending, and as soon as we arrived home, I attacked her with a knife and was already inflicting cuts on her body when my father tried to save her from me.
“I attacked my father too because if I had not stabbed both of them, they would have succeeded in killing me.”
Daniel also said that he attacked his mother and father with a knife for giving him a fake name which rendered the magic black soap he got from a white garment church priest useless. He further revealed that he made his elder brother his next of kin in his bank documentation but the same elder brother allegedly had been trying to play smart with his money.
Daniel said;
“I am a 200-level student of LAUTECH and I have built a three-bedroom bungalow from the money I made from doing yahoo business. I am angry with my parents, particularly my mother, for giving me a fake name instead of her real name.
“There is a particular black magic soap that I have been using lately. The soap was given to me by the priest of a white garment church named Mathew.
“I was the one who bought a generator for Pastor Mathew’s church around Ona Grammar School in Ogbomosho.
“The soap was meant to bring me good fortune, but there was the need for me to call my mother’s name into it before it could work.
“My mother told me that her name is Titilayo. But when I called the name into the soap, it did not work. Hence, I got angry and decided to stab her.”
However, Daniel’s mother, Titilayo said she did not collect any money from him. She said;
“I was called on the phone to come pick up my son from school at LAUTECH when he started exhibiting mental illness.
“When we got home, his father brought a native medicine home and gave him to use. He slept off after taking the medicine.
“However, when he woke up, he demanded the whereabouts of his phone and I told him I did not take his phone. He landed several blows on me.
“He is a liar; I did not collect any money from him.”
Daniel’s father also accused his wife of knowing everything pertaining to how his son ventured into yahoo business and how he built a house from the money he made from the fraudulent activity.
He said;
“My wife was the one that indulged him (Daniel). She knew when her son started building a house, yet she did not tell me.”
