A man identified as Kamoru Kushimo had stabbed and killed his 25-year old childhood friend, Olawale Salau, on Alafia Street, in the Iyana Ipaja area of Lagos State for giving him advise to change his way of life.
The tragedy took place on Wednesday, November 5, 2014, when the suspect was granted bail after detention for attacking someone in their area.
After successful efforts for his friend’s release, the deceased who is also a lottery agent was said to have advised his friend to turn a new leaf.
According to Punch reports, a resident, Sola Adebambo (not real name), said Kushimo became angry and accused the deceased of reporting him to people who had been rebuking him.
“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, ”said the source.
Still irked after the argument, Kushimo allegedly laid an ambush for his friend in a dark area with a knife.
Further narrating the incident, the source who witnessed the event said, “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 deceased employer, Taofeek Olaoye, who rushed him to the hospital after the incident disclosed the gave up the ghost before they could arrive the hospital due to the severity of the attack.
He said, “I was about going to bed when I received a call that Salau had been injured. I didn’t know what exactly transpired between him and his friend. When I got there, I carried him into the car, as life was gradually ebbing out of him. We took him to the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital at Ikeja, where he was confirmed dead.
“It was an unfortunate incident because we had just closed from work when all this happened. He was a very hardworking boy, who had been with me for about eight years.”
In reaction, an angry mob hadreportedly vandalised the property belonging to the suspecct.
Meanwhile, Salau’sgirlfriend, Funmilayo Egunbiyi, said they were planning to get married before the brutalmurder.
She said, “I feel so terrible about this loss. He was my confidante. I want justice for him. Also, I am aware there was a third person who instigated the fight. The police should arrest him.”
