A 27-year-old man, Michael Abodurin,
has been stabbed to death by hoodlums called by his landlady, Mrs. Idowu
Adenekan, in the Oworonsoki area of Lagos. According to PUNCH Metro, problem had started after the deceased’s
friend could not pay back the N200 he borrowed from the landlady last year.
It was gathered that after it dawned on the landlady, Adenekan that the debtor
would not pay the debt, she allegedly unleashed her thugs on the carpenter and
his friend. In the process, Adenekan was killed. A bottle was smashed on
Adenekan’s head after which he was stabbed with a pair of scissors in the
chest. He died before he could get medical help.
According to the residents, the incident happened on Saturday around 11pm. A
resident, who pleaded anonymity, said:
“I had just returned from work that
day when I met them arguing over N200. I was told that Abodurin’s friend had
owed the landlady the money since last year and he had not visited the house
since then.
But he came on a visit that Saturday and when the landlady
saw him, she demanded her money, which the man said he did not have. She
insisted on collecting the money from him despite interventions from the people
around.
When everybody saw that she would not let the matter rest,
Abodurin offered to pay the money, but she refused. Her aged father also gave
her the money, but she refused. At least three people offered to pay the money,
but she insisted that the debtor must pay her.”
Another resident, Chigozie Odinaka,
said as the argument continued, some hoodlums invited by Adenekan started to
make trouble with the unidentified friend.
Odinaka, who described the landlady as a troublesome woman whom they all feared
in the neighbourhood, said in the ensuing scuffle, Abodurin was hit on the head
with a bottle.
“As the fight degenerated, Adenekan
was struck with a bottle in the head. As he was going to report at the police
station, one of the hoodlums went after him and stabbed him in the chest with a
scissors, which led to his death,” he added.
The matter was said to have been
reported at the Oworonsoki Police Division.
The landlady and a suspect, who stabbed the deceased, were taken into custody
as some aggrieved friends of the deceased threatened to burn down the house.
PUNCH
Metro on Tuesday visited Adeyiga Odunukan Close where the incident happened
and observed during the visit that the house was almost deserted as some of the
rooms were locked.
It was learnt that the corpse of the deceased had been taken to the mortuary.
The Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Kenneth Nwosu, confirmed the case,
adding that woman and another suspect had been transferred to the State
Department of Crminal Investigations.
He said, “It was initially reported as a case of assault until it was learnt
that the man died.”
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Shocker!!! Landlady’s Thugs Kill Carpenter over N200 Debt
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