Man Kills Grandmother Over House Rent in Benin (Graphic Photos)

The accused beaten to a pulp

A young man in the South-South part of Nigeria has allegedly hacked his grandmother to death over financial disagreements that went awry.

The young man pictured above allegedly killed his own grandmother over house rent issue in Benin.

According to an eye witness, the man and his grandmother had been fighting for years over ownership of a house. The man claimed his late mother owned the house and bequitted to him but the grandmother insisted the house, located at Benin technical college rd, Ugbowo, belonged to her.

And in the early hours of today Nov. 20th, the man asked his grandmother for the rent she had collected from the tenant in the house which amounts to N15,000 and when the grandmother refused, it led to a hot exchange of words between both parties.

The young man resorted to the unexpected by reaching for a cutlass and hacking the aged woman to death. When neighbours got wind of what he had done, they descended on the boy and nearly beat him to death.

He was later handed over to the division of Ukoro police station officers, who came and took him away.

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