The 73-year-old grandmother who set her son’s family ablaze in Apomu Community, in Akure, the Ondo State capital, have died at the Federal Medical Center, in the Owo area of the state.
According to a family source who spoke anonymously, the grandma died a few days after she was rushed to the hospital.
The source said, she died at the hospital “where she was admitted for treatment, having sustained some degrees of burns during the inferno”.
Recall that the grandmother, who resides in her son’s house, set the entire family members of her son ablaze on the excuse of being starved of food by the daughter-in-law.
She confessed to sprinkling petrol on the victims’ room and ignited a fire with a matchstick, while her son, Victor Oloro; his wife, Rachael, and their children, Toluwani and Blessing, were all in the house and deeply asleep in the wee hours of the fateful day.
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Earlier, the killer grandmother had told the police that she set the house ablaze because of her daughter-in-law, who starved her of food.
She told the police that she regrets her actions, especially because it caused the death of her son, Victor.
According to her, the motive of her Rachel’s action is to send her out of her son’s house.
Quoting her, police sources said, “She decided to punish me by starving me of food. She believed that after starving me for some time, I will leave the house for her. But she has forgotten that the house her family members are living in was built by my late husband and me.
“Nobody can eject me from the house my late husband built with his sweat. It’s just not possible. She wanted her husband and their family to take over the house after I might have left in annoyance.”
She, however, admitted that she overreacted to the ill-treatment she received from her daughter-in-law.