A 33-year old man, Azeez Kilani, who allegedly stole cassava tubers and killed the owner, David Adima at Sojulu village was paraded by the Ogun state Police on Monday.

He was paraded alongside 42 other suspects on Monday by the Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Iliyasu at the State Headquarters, Eleweran, Abeokuta.

Iliyasu said the cassava thief decided to murder the deceased to cover up his track “having realised he is well known.”

The suspect denied hacking the deceased to death.

NigerianTribune reports Kilani explained that he wrestled with the victim who was using his cutlass to beat him, and in the process, the cutlass hit the deceased on the neck while he fainted and died afterwards.

“He met me on his farm uprooting his cassava, but I begged him not to report me to Village Head (Baale). He was armed with cutlass and he deployed the cutlass to beat me and I resisted. I dragged the cutlass with him and in the process, the cutlass hit him on the neck and he fainted. He later died on the farmland. The incident happened on August 13”, Kilani said.