Detectives attached to the Homicide
Section of the State Criminal Intelligence and Investigations Department
(SCIID), Panti, Yaba, Lagos State, have arrested Mr. Bashiru Ahmed, for
allegedly killing a father of five at the Okokomaiko area of the metropolis.
The deceased, Halilu Adamu, a
45-year-old Suya seller, was alleged to have been killed by Ahmed for
laughing at him and his gang members.
Adamu’s journey to the grave started
after Ahmed’s friend fell into a gutter, eliciting laughter from the deceased.
Angry, Ahmed picked Adamu’s meat from
the table and flung it on the ground. Although Adamu was angry, he refused to
pick a fight with Ahmed. Instead, he went to the market and bought another meat
to use in making Suya. Adamu was going home at night, when Ahmed and his
cronies allegedly waylaid and shot him in the chest. He died.
Later, the deceased’s friend carried out
a reprisal, killing Ahmed’s friend. They also allegedly set fire on Ahmed’s
father’s home.
A witness said trouble started after
Ahmed and friends, who were drunk, attempted to walk through where Adamu and
other Muslims were praying on Friday.
Adamu stopped them from passing through
the prayer area, noting that it was forbidden for drunks to pass where Muslims
were praying.
It was also learnt that because Ahmed
and his friends were drunk, one of them fell into the gutter, causing laughter.
The late Adamu was the first person to start laughing.
Our correspondent learnt that after the
deceased finished praying, he continued to laugh. The way Adamu laughed angered
Ahmed and his friends.
They returned, picked the meat Adamu
bought for making his Suya and flung it to the ground. When Ahmed and his gang
members were leaving, they threatened to deal with Adamu and his workers.
Adamu’s in-law, Mr. Nasiru Habeeb, said:
“When Ahmed and his friends threw the meat to the ground, Adamu went to lodge a
complaint to Ahmed’s father. Ahmed’s father is the Seriki Hausa in the
community. The Seriki tried to refund Adamu for the meat, but he refused. He
went to buy another meat with his money. He prepared another Suya.
“When Adamu was going home that same day
after he was through with his business, Ahmed and his friends waylaid him
around 11p.m. They shot him in the chest.”
Mr. Abdulahi Musa, another resident,
said: “In Islam, it is forbidden for someone, who is drunk to pass through the
mosque, let alone when people are praying. Ahmed and his friends were drunk on
that day; that was why Adamu prevented them from passing through. We were
all outside the mosque, to pray that Friday, when Ahmed
came. They wanted to walk through where we were praying. Adamu didn’t fight
him. Ahmed and his friend see themselves as untouchable in the community. That
was why he is always misbehaving. We want security in our community.”
Ahmed’s father, the Seriki, Alhaji Adamu
Ahmed, told our correspondent that the matter had been settled between his
family and that of the deceased.
He said: “I was in the mosque the
following day after Adamu’s murder, when his friends came and set my palace on
fire. They threatened to kill me. It was due to the quick intervention of
policemen from Okomaiko Police Station and OPMESA that my family and I got out
of the mosque alive. We ran into safety.”
It was also learnt that on
September 17, Adamu’s friends allegedly caught one of Ahmed’s friends, pursued
and killed him at Alaba Rago.
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