KO DA ! Igboro ti
Daru…Se O Ra ni Eko. Eko Ba je pa a h
pa ah !. Omo Igbo ti Pa Omo Hausa ni Eko * The Lagos State Police Command has
arrested a trader, Mr. Lawrence Ikonne, for allegedly killing a buyer, Isa
Yaya, because the deceased haggled over the price of a commodity. Punch learnt that the incident occurred at Ikonne’s residence on Afro Close,
Afromedia Estate, Okokomaiko, Lagos. Ikonne sold electronic appliances at the
Alaba International Market, Ojo, Lagos.
It was learnt that the victim, 22-year-old Yaya, from northern Nigeria, had
gone to Ikonne’s apartment to buy a fairly used air conditioner. Yaya, it was
said, usually bought and re-sold condemned iron and electrical materials.
correspondent gathered that Ikonne, 26, from the Isiala-Ngwa South Local
Government Area of Abia State, had gone to Alaba market on the morning of
Friday, where he first met Yaya. Ikonne had also reportedly invited the deceased
to his house to buy his second-hand air conditioner.
When they got to the house, it was said that the two of them went inside a room
to bring out the commodity, and they started haggling over the price.It was
gathered that Yaya insisted on buying the air conditioner below N5, 000- a
price which did not go down well with Ikonne. As the haggling continued, a
fight was said to have ensued between the two which turned violent during which
Ikonne allegedly hit Yaya with a plank in the belly.
During interrogation, the suspect explained that he had asked Yaya to either
pay N5, 000 or assist him to return the commodity to where they brought it from
but Yaya had refused. Ikonne added that he felt insulted by this attitude.
He said, “I had not met the young man before. I met him that morning at the
Alaba market, and asked him to buy one of my appliances: an air conditioner. He
actually looked like a cart pusher. When we got home, we both went in to remove
the product, and we brought it outside for negotiation. As we continued, he
said he would pay less than N5, 000. I replied that he should assist me to
return it to where we took it from, but he refused. In the process, we started
fighting. He even asked me to pay him for helping me bring it out. I was mad,
and I hit his belly with a plank.
“When I realised he had fainted, I tied him with a rope and dragged him into a
corner. I also fled the house.”
Our correspondent gathered that it was one of Ikonne’s co-tenants who noticed
Yaya’s corpse where he was tied up.
He then raised the alarm, and reported the case to the Okokomaiko police
station. The policemen later came to arrest Ikonne.
CREDIT: PUNCH.
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