Police arrest drug addict for stabbing Lagos cleric to death

Akeem Ojiwusi, a cleric has been stabbed to death by a 30-year-old man identified as David, who is said to be under the influence of hard drugs, in the Abule Egba area of Lagos State.

Wakadaily learnt that David was found of committing different crimes whenever he got intoxicated and his actions frequently caused conflict with his neighbors.

On the fateful day the crime was committed, the victim’s relative, who identified himself as Sefiu, said he was at home when the cleric sent him to buy some drugs for his treatment.

Sefiu said: “He (Ojiwusi) sent me to buy some drugs for him and when I was going towards the gate, I heard a scream from our compound and ran back and saw David stabbing my uncle.”

Ojiwusi’s friend, Adeleke Sulaimon, who spoke with the Punch said, “I was told by some of the people who helped David’s mother to rush him to the hospital that Ojiwusi was screaming in pain and saying David stabbed him. He was saying ‘I don’t want to die’, he was also shouting Allah, Allah.

“In fact, as we speak now, Ojiwusi’s phone is with David’s mother and we have been trying to reach her too because, after the whole incident, she also ran away. We have not been able to see any member of their family since Sunday.”

The clergyman relative, Kayode Abdulrasheed, said David was one of his late cousin’s neighbours.

“I was at home on Sunday night when I received a call that my cousin had been stabbed to death by one of the children of his neighbours where he lived in Abule Egba. I made further enquiries and I was told that what happened was that the person who stabbed him, David, is always smoking one drug called ‘Colorado’ which always makes him act like a madman.

It was still his mother that reported the case to the police at the New Oko Oba Police Station before we even got there on Monday and the police arrested David because she does not want people to take laws into their hands and deal with her son. The Oko Oba Police Station has transferred the case to the State Criminal Investigations Department.

“I even learnt that he once tried to rape his sister but for the intervention of my cousin and other neighbours who heard her screaming and they had to rescue her from him. My cousin, like I was told, was also carried to the hospital by David’s mother and some good Samaritans but along the way, we were told that he died due to the amount of blood he lost after the attack,” Kayode explained.

The deceased’s wife, Fatima, while demanding justice, said , “It was one of our relatives, Sefiu, who called me after he (Ojiwusi) had died and narrated the whole matter to me. I am now a widow.”

The state Police Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, who confirmed the incident said, “On Sunday, there was a reported case of a stabbing that led to the death of a man, Akeem Ojiwusi, by one David, and the police have arrested the suspect and the investigation is ongoing.

“Talking about being under the influence of drugs, we cannot ascertain that but what we know is that a person stabbed another person to death and the suspect has been arrested by our men. The suspect would have his day in court.”

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