A 30-year-old man identified simply as David, who is said to be under the influence of hard drugs, has allegedly stabbed a cleric, Akeem Ojiwusi, to death around Odekeye close, in the Abule Egba area of Lagos State.
It was gathered that David was fond of
committing different crimes whenever he got intoxicated and his actions usually
put him at loggerheads with his neighbours.
On the fateful day the crime was
committed, Ojiwusi’s relative, who identified himself simply as Sefiu, said he
was at home when the cleric sent him to buy some drugs for his treatment.
While on his way to get the
drugs, Sefiu told our correspondent that he suddenly started hearing Ojiwusi
screaming for help, adding that he ran back and saw David, who appeared to be
acting under the influence of hard drugs, stabbing the cleric repeatedly.
He said, “He (Ojiwusi) sent me to
buy some drugs for him and when I was going towards the gate, I heard a scream
from our compound and ran back and saw David stabbing my uncle.”
Speaking on the incident,
Ojiwusi’s friend, Adeleke Sulaimon, said neighbours who witnessed the attack
told him Ojiwusi was pleading for help while being rushed to hospital.
He said, “I was told by some of
the people who helped David’s mother to rush him to the hospital that Ojiwusi
was screaming in pain and saying David stabbed him. He was saying ‘I don’t want
to die’, he was also shouting Allah, Allah.
“In fact, as we speak now,
Ojiwusi’s phone is with David’s mother and we have been trying to reach her too
because, after the whole incident, she also ran away. We have not been able to
see any member of their family since Sunday.”
Ojiwusi’s relative, Kayode
Abdulrasheed, said David was one of his late cousin’s neighbours, adding that
he was at home when he received the sad news that claimed his cousin’s life.
He said, “I was at home on Sunday
night when I received a call that my cousin had been stabbed to death by one of
the children of his neighbours where he lived in Abule Egba. I made further
enquiries and I was told that what happened was that the person who stabbed
him, David, is always smoking one drug called ‘Colorado’ which always makes him
act like a madman.
“It was still his mother that
reported the case to the police at the New Oko Oba Police Station before we
even got there on Monday and the police arrested David because she does not
want people to take laws into their hands and deal with her son. The Oko Oba
Police Station has transferred the case to the State Criminal Investigations
Department.
“I even learnt that he once tried
to rape his sister but for the intervention of my cousin and other neighbours
who heard her screaming and they had to rescue her from him. My cousin, like I
was told, was also carried to the hospital by David’s mother and some good
Samaritans but along the way, we were told that he died due to the amount of
blood he lost after the attack.”
The deceased’s wife, Fatima,
while demanding justice, said she was not at home when the suspect perpetrated
the crime.
She said, “It was one of our
relatives, Sefiu, who called me after he (Ojiwusi) had died and narrated the
whole matter to me. I am now a widow.”
It gathered that Ojiwusi’s corpse
had been deposited at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital in the Ikeja
area of the state.
The state Police Public Relations
Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed the incident.
He said, “On Sunday, there was a
reported case of a stabbing that led to the death of a man, Akeem Ojiwusi, by
one David, and the police have arrested the suspect and the investigation is
ongoing.
“Talking about being under the
influence of drugs, we cannot ascertain that but what we know is that a person
stabbed another person to death and the suspect has been arrested by our men.
The suspect would have his day in court.”
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