20-year-old aspiring football
player from Afikpo North, Ebonyi State, Jacob pictured above has been arrested
by the Lagos state Police command for killing a mechanic, Moruf Sanni by
stabbing him to death over an arguement regarding age difference at Iwaya,Yaba
on Monday May 25th.
According to reports, the
victim, Moruf had an argument and a fight with someone in his area simply
identified as 'Somebody', over who was older on Sunday May 24th. The fight
was then settled by the elders in the
area.
Angered by Moruf's claim that
he was older and was not going to give him respect, 'Somebody' contacted his
friend, Jacob to teach Moruf a lesson.
Jacob accosted the deceased in
his compound and didn't teach him a lesson but stabbed him repeatedly on the
neck and head and killed him. He was arrested by the residents of the area who
witnessed the incident and chained to the corpse.
Father of the deceased, Mr
Lukman, who is a taxi driver, said he had gone in search of fuel and as he
returned, a neighbor ran to his house to inform him that somebody was fighting
his son
“Somebody ran to my house. He
said a strange man was fighting with my son. I immediately rushed there, only
to see the corpse of my son. The suspect was tied to my son’s corpse. I simply
thanked him for killing my son and walked away.”
The victim's mother according
to a relative of the deceased lost her mind immediately she saw her son's
corpse because the deceased was the second son she had lost.
“February 20 of this year made it exactly 3
years that the first child of the family was killed. A police stray bullet hit
him when the police came to look for some hoodlums. So, when this one happened
again, their mother just ran away and has not been seen since then.”the
relative said.
A police source who spoke on condition of anonymity said the
suspect when interrogated gave a different version of events.
“He said they went for a birthday party on
Sunday night and it was there they had a disagreement. The following morning,
he confronted Moruf and the deceased then brought out a knife which he
collected from him. He said Moruf then got a bottle and it was while he wanted to
block him from using it that it mistakenly stabbed him in the neck.”the police
source said.
The father of the deceased has
asked for his son's body for burial but the corpse has been deposited at a
mortuary while the police says investigates the matter
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