‘My Mother’s Voice Keeps Telling Me To Kill Someone In Prison’

41-year-old Nurudeen Bakare who has lived 12 years overseas is standing trial at the Igbosere High Court, Lagos for the alleged murder of his mother, Abosede.

This is coming four years after Nurudeen reportedly fatally stabbed his mother in the stomach and neck,  as he was charged in court on June 27, 2022.

Mrs. Titilayo Olanrewaju-Daudu, the state’s prosecutor, informed the court that the event happened on June 6, 2018, at approximately 11 p.m., at 49, Oremeji Street, Ilasamaja, in the Mushin region of Lagos State.

He is facing one count of murder preferred against him by the Lagos State Government.

The defendant, who was brought from the Ikoyi Custodial Centre, declared himself to be a patient of a mental health facility when the case was brought before Justice Modupe Nico-Clay on Thursday to begin the trial.

The defendant was a 37-year-old when he allegedly killed his mother, 65.

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He said, “I have been hearing voices in the prison that I should kill somebody. It is my mother’s voice that I have been hearing that I must kill somebody in the cell. I even attempted to kill somebody last month on October 11 at the Ikoyi prison.”

Justice Nico-Clay asked him to stop talking, called a prison official into the courtroom and instructed him to keep the defendant away from other inmates, Punch disclosed.