A cobbler, Adesina Osinowo, has hacked a 25-year-old man, Eje Ebi, to death by in the Ikorodu area of Lagos State. The victim was hacked with machete in the head and hand when the suspect wanted to dispossess him of some money he was taking to the market to buy clothes.
The victim’s brother, Azubuike Ebi, narrated his account of the incidence:
“I brought him to stay with me in Ikorodu because of the killings in Jos. His wife and kid went to stay in our village in Afikpo North, Ebonyi State. He chose to sell fairly-used clothes at a motor park in Ikorodu and was making money.
On Thursday, he woke up very early to buy goods that he would sell because he had run out of stock. That was when Osinowo, who had been monitoring his movement, attacked him on the road and used machete to cut him in the head and hand. He also abandoned his corpse at the roundabout.”
The suspect later reported himself to security men, with blood stains all over his clothes. Angry residents reportedly swooped on him and would have lynched him, but for the intervention of community elders who handed him over to the police.
While the deceased was taken to a mortuary in Ikorodu, the suspect was detained at the Igbogbo Police Station. The Public Relations Officer of the Igbo Council of Chiefs, Ikorodu, Chief Ibe Onyike, said he suspected that Eje was killed for a ritual purpose.
We all have to be very careful when moving with cash these days – especially this ember months. May his soul RIP.