In May 2015 when an Alabama woman got a life sentence after running her nine-year-old granddaughter to death as punishment for lying about candy, many concluded that Joyce Hardin Garrard, described by prosecutors as the “drill sergeant from hell”, was best suited for the electric chair.
Then like one of those weird scenes in Nollywood movies, another grandmother from hell reportedly incinerated her son, daughter-in-law, and two grandchildren in the Aponmu area of Ondo State capital Akure.
75-year-old Iforiti Oloro, who is said to be resident in the same compound with her son and his family purportedly rose at midnight while the family and other regular mortals slept, and torched the house.
A resident in the community, Bayo Adegboyega, narrated that at about 2:00 am on Saturday, residents observed that the family’s house was on fire. What made it even more bizarre was that all the family members were at home.
“I had to join other neighbours in putting off the fire by breaking the windows to gain entry. But, sadly, by the time we entered, Victor Oloro, his wife Racheal, and their two children, Blessing and Toluwani, had been affected by the fire.”
“So, we rushed them to the Federal Medical Centre in Owo after being rejected at the state hospital in Akure because of the degrees of burns suffered from the fire incident but unfortunately, we lost the last born on arrival while on Sunday night, the man and his wife died. Only the firstborn is alive but in a critical condition,”
Thereafter, the fiendish grandmother reportedly confessed to having set the building on fire on the allegation that her son and his wife were starving her of food.
The Ondo state police Public Relations Officer (PRO) Funmilayo Odunlami Omisanya who confirmed the incident, said the divisional police officer, DPO in the community, was still expecting details of the incident. “So, I would advise you to give me more time to gather the facts.”
