Mechanic Stabs Friend to Death Over Ex-girlfriend in Lagos

 

 

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a 25-year-old man, Usman Abubakar, for allegedly stabbing his friend, Adio Jimoh, to death in the Iyana Oba, Ojo area of Lagos State, according to the Punch.
 

It was learnt that the suspect killed Jimoh during a scuffle over Abubakar’s ex-girlfriend, identified as Ayinke. It was gathered that Abubakar had separated from Ayinke after a disagreement but the latter went to meet Abubakar’s friends so that they could appeal to him to take her back.

It was learnt that during a reconciliatory meeting, Abubakar beat up Ayinke, who then reported him to his friends. The suspect was allegedly attacked by his friends during which he stabbed Jimoh to death. The suspect reportedly hid in a police post before he was arrested by policemen from the Ojo division.

Abubakar, a secondary school dropout, told the police he acted in self-defence and did not mean to kill the victim. He said, “I lost my parents when I was very young. I dropped out of school when I was in SS2 due to financial constraints and I became a mechanic.

“Jimoh was my friend and I did not have any misunderstanding with him before that fateful day. On September 13, around 9pm, I was in the house of one of my friends, Riliwan, when I saw my former girlfriend, Ayinke, enter the room with her friend, Olamide.

“I immediately warned her and ask her to leave, but she did not answer me. She started abusing me and later grabbed me by the shirt and when I saw it was getting out of hand, I forced myself out of her hands.”

He said Ayinke and Olamide left the room and he later decided to leave for his own apartment on Prince Adebayo Street, Iyana Oba. He claimed that he was on his way home when two men he identified as Ibrahim, aka Yahoo, and Basoro attacked him for assaulting his former girlfriend.

The suspect claimed he luckily ran away to his house where he met his landlord and his wife. As he was narrating his ordeal to them, a group of friends numbering six appeared with broken bottles with the deceased, Adio Jimoh wielding a knife with an intention to attack him.

 

He said he was able to grab the weapon from him and then stabbed him right in the chest in self defence. He then ran away to seek refuge in a police post where he was later arrested on identification by members of the Oodua People's Congress, OPC.

It was learnt that the deceased’s corpse was deposited in a mortuary, but his family members retrieved it before the police could conclude investigations.