Man arrested for stoning his two children to death

Elisha Tari, a 25- year-old man has revealed why he murdered his two children in Adamawa State.

Tari, who got separated from his wife and mother of the two children two months ago after a misunderstanding allegedly hit the victims with the stones and sticks repeatedly until they died.

He was reported to the police by his father and was on the verge of running away to Cameroon when he was arrested,SP Sulemann Nguroje, the spokesperson for the Adamawa Police Command said in a statement on Saturday.

After his arrest by the police, Tari, a single parent and a local village musician, narrated, “It happened last Thursday, I was preparing their meal, I enquired to know if they had any idea when their mother would forgive me and return home to us; they kept mute. I also asked them to repeat after me and pronounce “God”; they refused, instead they shouted “fire” and kept yelling “fire”, repeatedly.