A man identified as Yaya Babarinde has allegedly set his 10-year-old son on fire for stealing money in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital.
A video clip circulated online shows the boy with injuries on his body.
Babarinde is also seen in the video confessing to inflicting the grievous harm on his son.
Speaking in Yoruba language, the father disclosed that he tied up the before him into fireplace but didn’t know the place was lit.
His words: “I am a shoe cobbler. I came in the evening and my neighbours told me my son stole money.
“When I asked them if they had collected back the money from him, they told me that he only returned half of it and had given the rest to his friends on the street.
“I beat him up, tied his hands and put him in the fire place not knowing there was fire in it. Unfortunately the fire caught his cloth and burnt his body.
“I don’t have money to take him to the hospital.
“It was a mistake. I did not do it intentionally. Please pardon me.”
See the video below.
https://youtu.be/AYOlFnn-Zik
