According to Daniel, the victim's younger brother, he said his
brother became friends with the lady in question after he mistakenly
dialed her number. He said they were never dating
Monday Ekwekuba, 38, has been arrested by the Lagos state Police command for killing 26-year-old student, Wisdom Okafor in Ojokoro, Lagos, following a disagreement over the victim's closeness to his girlfriend.
Punch reports that the suspect Ekwekuba had visited his girlfriend on March 22nd and met Wisdom in her house. He accused the deceased of having an affair with his girlfriend
and out of anger, picked up a stick and smashed it on Wisdom's head who
took to his heels but unfortunately ran into a moving vehicle where he
was crushed to death.
According to Daniel, the
victim's younger brother, he said his brother became friends with the
lady in question after he mistakenly dialed her number. He said they
were never dating.
“It was after he mistakenly dialled her phone number and they spoke that she invited him to her apartment and that was how they met. He later saw her in a nylon company where he was working to raise money for his exams. She was also working there. She was older than my brother and there was no way they could be dating,” he added.
“It was after he mistakenly dialled her phone number and they spoke that she invited him to her apartment and that was how they met. He later saw her in a nylon company where he was working to raise money for his exams. She was also working there. She was older than my brother and there was no way they could be dating,” he added.
Also speaking on the incident, his elder brother, Celestine said,
"On Sunday, March 22, around 10.30pm, the police came with a lady to my
house and asked for my brother. They said he was involved in a fight
and had injured a man named Monday (Ekwekuba), who had been
hospitalized. I told them my brother went out to see a friend and had
yet to return to the house. They said they would arrest me until I was
able to produce my brother. I was detained and later they asked me to
pay N10, 000 for Monday’s treatment, which I did. They then asked how I
would produce my brother, and I decided to call him in their presence.
His phone started ringing in the pocket of one of the policemen. The
officer said the phone belonged to the man in the hospital, who had just
died.
”Police reports say the girl in question
later confessed that her boyfriend pursued the victim to his death. The
suspect went into hiding after the incident but was later arrested.
Celestine has made a plea to the police to release his brother's body
for burial
“Our mother is late and our father is in the village in Enugu. He is sick, and I cannot inform him of the death of our brother because I don’t know what can happen to him.
“Our mother is late and our father is in the village in Enugu. He is sick, and I cannot inform him of the death of our brother because I don’t know what can happen to him.
My
job has been at a standstill and they should please release the corpse
to us so I can go and bury him and move on" he said. The police however
say they would release his body after they receive the autopsy result on
his corpse.
