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.
The victim’s boss, Taofeek Olaoye, said the 25-year-old could not make it as he died before he could get medical help.
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.”
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