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 they are investigating
the matter.
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