“Kill My Son!” – Retired Soldier’s Shocking Demand To Police

The Commissioner of Police in the FCT, CP Tunji Disu, has shared a shocking story of a retired soldier who once asked the police to kill his own son for cultism.

Disu revealed this incident in a post on his official X account, where he reflected on discipline, parenting, and the role of law enforcement in society.

According to him, the retired soldier stormed his office in Ago Iwoye, Ogun State, furious that his son had joined a cult. In his anger, he insisted that the police should kill the boy. However, just a day later, the same man returned with food, asking about his son’s well-being.

“When I joked, ‘So you don’t want us to kill him again?’ his eyes betrayed a truth every parent knows: anger is often the flipside of helpless love,” Disu wrote.

Years later, Disu ran into the soldier’s son in Shagamu. By then, the young man had turned his life around—he had completed his education and gotten married.

Disu used this experience to highlight a growing trend where parents approach the police, not for justice, but to discipline their children.

“Parents arrive at stations, not with pleas for justice, but with demands for us to parent for them. ‘I want you to detain my child; I want you to discipline him.’ ‘Torture him,’ as though pain alone could rewrite a life long gone astray,” he said.

He shared another case where a father insisted that his drug-addicted son be locked up for weeks. The police refused, explaining that cells are not rehabilitation centers.

“If anything were to happen to the boy, or if he escaped, who would the father blame? The police. Yet discipline cannot be outsourced. It must be nurtured, patiently and persistently, at home.”

Disu stressed that the real issue is not a lack of discipline but a lack of parental presence.

“Parents once corrected their children directly, even if harshly. Some have handed that duty to strangers—teachers, police, and social workers. But no institution can replace a parent’s guidance,” he said.

While the police enforce laws, they cannot take the place of parents in raising children.

“If your son steals or your daughter vanishes, come to us. We will help. But do not confuse reporting with surrendering. When you hand us your child and say, ‘Fix them,’ you misunderstand our role. We enforce laws; we cannot replace love. We investigate crimes; we cannot teach values,” he stated.

Disu emphasized that the retired soldier’s son changed not because he was jailed but because his father ultimately chose to support him rather than abandon him.

He urged parents to take responsibility for raising their children instead of relying on institutions.

“The police cannot replace your voice. We cannot instill the values you withhold. Our cells are not classrooms; handcuffs are not teaching tools. When you outsource parenting to the state, you gamble with life—and with the peace of communities.”

Encouraging parents to be more present in their children’s lives, he concluded:

“My generation’s parents were far from perfect, but they owned their role as first teachers. They scolded, they punished, and they stayed. I urge present parents to do the same—not with the harshness of the past, but with the wisdom of your own heart. Meet your children where they are. Listen. Correct and love.”
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