Grand mother set sleeping son, wife, children on fire in Ondo

A grandmother, identified simply as lforiti, has reportedly set her son, 2 grandchildren, and their mother on fire in Apomu community, Akure, Ondo State capital.

Sources that witnessed the scenario told newsmen that the grandmother, who lives with her son in the same residence, set his son and his immediate family ablaze.

She argued that they were not feeding her to her satisfaction.

She put the house on fire when everyone was asleep, taking lives of 3 members of the family, his son — Victor, his wife — Rachael and a grand child.

The other grand child was hospitalized at the Federal Medical Centre FMC, Owo for medical attention to the critical condition.

A source who also witnessed the scenario, Korede Michael, told newsmen in Akure that: “we saw the house on fire around 2:00 am at the weekend and had to break the window to rescue everyone in the house.

“The woman, her son, Victor Oloro; wife, Rachael; and children, Toluwani and Blessing, were all in the house when the woman set it on fire. She got some dry palm fronds and the little petrol her son kept in a gallon (for generator), spread it around the house and then put fire to it.”

“I was the first person to notice the fire and jumped into the house before other members of the community joined me in rescuing them.

“We got a vehicle immediately to transport them to the government hospital in Akure.

“When we got to Akure (UNIMED annex), the doctors and nurses rejected the patients, saying they cannot take care of them due to the degree of the burn and advised that we take them to the Federal Medical Center in Owo.

“Unfortunately, we lost the last grandchild, who was just two and a half years old, immediately we got to Owo.

“The son and his wife, also, gave up the ghost while the only grandchild left is in a critical condition.”

He also said, “the children could not send the woman out of the house when she started behaving strangely because it was built by her late husband”.