A 25-year old lottery agent, Olawale Salau was on Wednesday last week
stabbed to death by his childhood friend, Kamoru Kushimo on Alafia
Street, in the Iyana Ipaja area of Lagos State for asking him to change
his ways.
A resident who spoke to Punch said the deceased had threatened
to end his relationship with the suspect if he did not change his ways
after he facilitated his bail for attacking a neighbor.
“In the afternoon of that fateful day, he
verbally assaulted him for hours while we were all drinking at the club.
Salau did not answer him and people asked Kushimo to stop, but he
refused. Then he said he wanted their friendship to end. Salau told him
that if that was what he wanted, he was satisfied with the decision. But
we all became surprised as Kushimo said he wanted to fight with him.
While we were all trying to settle the
quarrel, Kushimo grabbed a bottle and smashed it against the wall. The
splinters fell on me and injured another friend of ours. But Salau held
him from using the bottle. I tried separating them,” he said.
They reportedly went their separate ways after some community leaders
intervened. However, unknown to Salau, his friend had gone to waylay
him in the dark, armed with a knife. A resident said he had gone to
attend to the injured friend when he was returning to the street and saw
the suspect racing towards him…
“I didn’t know he had stabbed Salau in the
chest and armpit with the knife. But I ran after him. He wanted to jump
the fence of a house into the next street, but I grabbed him. He pleaded
with me to release him, but I told him he was going nowhere. It was
then I saw Salau screaming that he had been stabbed. I handed Kushimo
over to an elderly man and tried to help Salau up. But he was down and
nobody even came near because it was dark.”
The victim’s boss, Taofeek Olaoye, said the 25-year-old could not make it as he died before he could get medical help.
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