Photo: 21-Year Old Stabs Landlord To Death In Street Brawl
Some hoodlums started a street fight on Olorogun Street, Odo Eran, in the Itire
area of Lagos State on Tuesday, during which a 21-year-old stabbed a landlord,
identified as Alawu Lateef, to death.
Policemen visited the street in the evening and raided other suspected hoodlums lurking in the area.
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Metro learnt that Lateef, who was a father of three, had intervened in the
fight, and asked the hoodlums to leave the area, when one of them, identified
as Lati Elepo, stabbed the landlord.
It was gathered that the father of three slumped, while residents arrested
Elepo before he could escape with the other hoodlums. The matter was said to
have been reported at the Itire Police Division.
A Punch correspondent learnt that the hoodlums, numbering six boys, had come
from Osindero Street to meet one Balogun, who they claimed owed them about
N30,000. It was learnt that when the hoodlums did not meet Balogun at home,
they started to make trouble on the street.
The landlord, Lateef, who worked as a panel beater, was said to have asked
Elepo to leave the area with his gang members. The hoodlum, however, stabbed
him in the chest.
Friends and family members rushed the landlord to a private hospital in the
area, from where he was referred to the Lagos University Teaching Hospital,
Idi Araba, where he was confirmed dead. His corpse was afterwards brought to
the Itire division.
When Punch Metro visited the area, one of his neighbours, who identified
himself simply as Rashidi, said Lateef did not have any business with the
miscreants, but only tried to pacify them when Elepo stabbed him on the chest.
Rashidi added that Elepo and two other suspects were arrested by the police.
He said, “It was at about 11am when these boys from Osindero stormed our
street. They are teenagers. They are not cultists. They said Balogun owed them
N30,000 which they must collect from him.
“Lateef did not want such commotion on the street. So, he came out to caution
them to take things calmly. The one who stabbed him was drunk.
“While Lateef spoke with them, the suspect went to a shop of an artisan who
sharpens knives and other metals, grabbed about three knives and stabbed
Lateef on the chest. Resident arrested him and dragged him to the police
station while other hoodlums ran away.”
The landlord’s wife was said to be too distraught to talk with PUNCH Metro as
of the time of visit.
Policemen visited the street in the evening and raided other suspected hoodlums lurking in the area.
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