The police in Lagos state have arrested one Chukwuma Njoku, for allegedly stabbing his brother, Uchenna Njoku, a businessman, to death during an argument over N3,000 debt at the deceased’s residence in the Odokekere area of Ikorodu North Local Council Development Area of Lagos State.
According to
reports, Chukwu had paid his older brother a visit last Friday April 2. During
the visit, the deceased asked his brother to pay the N3,000 he owed him.
However, this degenerated into an argument and later into a serious fight.
Pleas from the pregnant wife of the deceased for them to stop fighting, fell on
deaf ears. She ran out to call the neighbors to stop them from fighting.
Sadly before she
returned, Chukwuma had brought out a knife and allegedly stabbed his sibling in
the stomach.
A relative of the
brothers, Alex Ogbu said;
“It was in my house
that Uchenna stayed when he first got to Lagos before he started his life. What
we gathered was that around 10pm on Friday, April 2, 2021, Chukwuma visited
Uchenna to greet him and during the visit, Uchenna demanded the N3,000 Chukwuma
owed him.
Uchenna insisted
that Chukwuma would not leave his house until he had paid the money. So, they
started arguing, but Chukwuma told Uchenna that he also owed him N2,000 and
that his balance was N1,000.
In the process,
they fought from Uchenna’s apartment till they got to the compound, where
Chukwuma stabbed Uchenna in the stomach with a knife. Uchenna’s wife, who is
pregnant, was with them when they were threatening to kill each other; she left
to call a neighbour and returned to see that Chukwuma had stabbed Uchenna in
the stomach. He fell to the ground and started bleeding. Bloodstains are still
at the scene of the fight.”
Confirming the arrest
of the suspect, the spokesperson of the state police command, Muyiwa Adejobi,
said he will be taken to the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence
Department, Panti, Yaba, for proper investigation and prosecution once an
investigation has been concluded.
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