Elisha Tari, the 25-year-old father who stoned his children aged three and five to death in Adamawa, has revealed what motivated him.
Tari said has a psychological problem, and was once tied in chains some time ago.
“I smoke Indian hemp, drink alcohol, and inhale snuff. I don’t take tramadol or any other hard drugs,” he said.
He also said his wife and the mother of the dead kids deceased left her matrimonial home two months ago, and would not return.
According to him, the children, the day he killed them, came asking when their mother would return.
Rather than answer them, he told the children to say God. But they kept shouting fire, and that got him angry.
“I became irritated and provoked by their action as a result which I picked up stones and hit them on their heads to death,” Tari added.