News: Man stabs friend to death for correcting him
A 25-year old lottery agent, Olawale Salau, has been stabbed
to death by his childhood friend, Kamoru Kushimo.
The incident happened on Wednesday, last week on Alafia
Street, in the Iyana Ipaja area of Lagos State.
PUNCH Metro learnt that the suspect had been released on
bail through the efforts of the late Salau, after he was detained for attacking
someone in the neighbourhood.It was gathered that the deceased had after the
bail been talking to his jobless friend to change his aggressive behaviour.
A resident, Sola Adebambo (not real name), said Kushimo
became angry and accused the deceased of reporting him to people who had been
rebuking him..
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He said the suspect began insulting the deceased and
threatened to end their friendship.
He said, “In the afternoon of that fateful day, he verbally
assaulted him for hours while we were all drinking at the club. Salau did not
answer him and people asked Kushimo to stop, but he refused. Then he said he
wanted their friendship to end.
“Salau told him that if that was what he wanted, he was
satisfied with the decision. But we all became surprised as Kushimo said he
wanted to fight with him.
“While we were all trying to settle the quarrel, Kushimo
grabbed a bottle and smashed it against the wall. The splinters fell on me and
injured another friend of ours. But Salau held him from using the bottle. I
tried separating them.”
They reportedly went their separate ways after some
community leaders intervened.
However, unknown to Salau, his friend had gone to waylay him
in the dark, armed with a knife.
The resident who spoke to PUNCH Metro said he had gone to
attend to the injured friend identified as Flash, when he was returning to the
street and saw the suspect racing towards him.
“I didn’t know he had stabbed Salau in the chest and armpit
with the knife. But I ran after him. He wanted to jump the fence of a house
into the next street, but I grabbed him.
“He pleaded with me to release him, but I told him he was
going nowhere. It was then I saw Salau screaming that he had been stabbed.
“I handed Kushimo over to an elderly man and tried to help
Salau up. But he was down and nobody even came near because it was dark.”
The victim’s boss, Taofeek Olaoye, said the 25-year-old
could not make it as he died before he could get medical help.
He said, “I was about going to bed when I received a call
that Salau had been injured. I didn’t know what exactly transpired between him
and his friend. When I got there, I carried him into the car, as life was
gradually ebbing out of him. We took him to the Lagos State University Teaching
Hospital at Ikeja, where he was confirmed dead.
“It was an unfortunate incident because we had just closed
from work when all this happened. He was a very hardworking boy, who had been
with me for about eight years.”
Our correspondent observed that the street was still tense a
day after the incident, as residents discussed in hush tones.
Thick blood stains could still be seen at the frontage of
the house where the deceased reportedly slumped.Some pieces of furniture and
electronic gadgets were burnt beside the blood spot.
It was learnt that angry residents brought out the property
of the suspect and vandalised them.
The deceased’s girlfriend, Funmilayo Egunbiyi, said she and
Salau were planning their wedding when he was killed.
She said, “I feel so terrible about this loss. He was my
confidante. I want justice for him. Also, I am aware there was a third person
who instigated the fight. The police should arrest him.”
The Chairman of the Community Development Area and the
traditional ruler of the area said they could not comment because they had
already gone to bed when Salau was killed.
PUNCH Metro, however, learnt that the matter was reported at
the Dopemu Police Division in Agege, and the suspect was in police custody.
The Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Kenneth Nwosu
confirmed the incident.
He added that the corpse of the deceased had been taken to a
morgue.
“It involved two friends who were apparently fighting and
one stabbed the other to death. The suspect is in police custody while the
remains of Salau have been taken to the morgue,” he said.
Source: PUNCH.
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