The Lagos State Police are currently
investigating the death of a 57-year-old man
allegedly stabbed to death by his friend during a
disagreement over sachet of dry gin worth N30, in
Otto community, an outskirts of Lagos.
Meanwhile, Police officers have gone on a raiding
spree in the community. They were said to have
roused some people from sleep and taken them
away. The officers, it was gathered, came twice
to raid the community and allegedly whisked
away about 30 suspects.
It was gathered that the victim, identified as Mr.
Abudu (aka Baba Timo), who had moved from
Bariga to Otto some months ago, was cooling
down with local gin at a joint with his friend
(names yet unknown) when trouble began.
Vanguard gathered that the disagreement, which
started as a joke at 8p.m., last Friday took a new
dimension at 10 p.m., after the duo engaged in a
fight, using dangerous weapons such as broken
bottle and cutlass on each other.
It was learned that because of the harmattan
cold, most residents had gone to bed while others
could not intervene because of the use of
dangerous weapons by the two parties.
Baba Timo reportedly inflicted machete cuts on
his friend’s head and hand, while his friend used
a broken bottle on his (Baba Timo) neck.
Unfortunately, Baba Timo died on the spot while
his friend who sustained injuries on his head and
neck is currently receiving treatment at an
undisclosed hospital in Lagos.
Narrating how Police officers raided houses in the
community, Mrs Titi Balogun, whose husband and
son were arrested, told Vanguard: “At few minutes
past 11p.m., I woke one of my sons to put off
the generator, immediately he did that and locked
the back door, I noticed movement outside
through my window and later someone began to
hit on the back door very hard.
“I came out of my room and went to open the
door and behold, they were police officers. One of
them asked me why we put off our generator,
and I said because it was late. They then went
into one of the rooms and woke my husband, who
was sleeping. They entered the other room, woke
one of my sons and his friend and then arrested
them.”
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