In Ogun State,
two herbalists, identified simply as Quadri and Adam, allegedly
stabbing a man, Wasiu Balogun, and his friend, Wale Aderinto, to death
in the Agbado area of the state.
the
herbalists, who are siblings, allegedly attacked Wasiu and his friend
with knives for confronting them after they stripped Wasiu’s
wife, Mutiat.
the incident occurred at about 7pm on Owonikoko Street last Tuesday. On the
day, a teenage girl, Kabirat, who is the younger sister of the
herbalists, had come to Mutiat’s house, and the woman had scolded her
for failing to greet the people she (Kabirat) met in the house.
Kabirat was said to have left the place in anger. It was gathered that Adam and Quadri,
came some minutes later to Mutiat’s house, and started a quarrel, during
which they allegedly stripped the woman and beat her up.
Thirty-eight-year-old Wasiu, who worked
as a vulcaniser, and his friend, Aderinto, a welder, reportedly came
back from their workplaces in the Ebute-Meta area of Lagos State, and
met distraught Mutiat at home.
The two were said to have headed for the
herbalists’ house after they were told of what transpired between
Mutiat and the herbalists. on
getting to house, matters degenerated, which led to the herbalists
stabbing Wasiu and Aderinto to death.
neighbours reported the incident at the Agbado Police Division. The herbalists were subsequently arrested and detained.
When our correspondent visited the area
on Monday, Mutiat said everybody scolded Kabirat for failing to greet
anyone, but she went to her house to tell her brothers another story.
Mutiat added that the suspects stabbed Wasiu and his friend to death with poisonous knives.
She said, “There was no fight on that
Tuesday. The girl came to our house and ignored everybody. People in the
house scolded her for it.
“When the girl left, her brothers came
some minutes later. They are herbalists. Their father is also a native
doctor. They came with charms and knives. They beat me up. They stripped
me. Neighbours tried to restrain them, but they threatened them.
“When my husband and his friend came
back from work, he was angry and he went to their house. They attacked
him and his friend with knives. They were both stabbed to death.”
There was no one to talk to PUNCH Metro at
the herbalists’ apartment as both suspects had been moved from the
Agbado division to the Ogun State Police Command headquarters, Eleweran,
Abeokuta.
The teenage girl, Kabirat, had also reportedly fled the area.
A neighbour, identified only as Olumide, said the suspects were notorious in the area for violence.
He said, “The suspects’ family worships Osanyin.
They were involved in a similar violence sometime last year, but they
were pardoned. The man and his friend had gone to talk to them for
manhandling his wife.
“The herbalists first attacked the
friend, and when Wasiu held them, they stabbed him too. It was one of us
who reported the matter at the police station. Wasiu had five children
from his first wife, but I don’t know how many children Mutiat has for
him.”
The Ogun State acting Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Abimbola Oyeyemi, confirmed the arrest.
He added that investigation was ongoing into the matter at the state command headquarters, Abeokuta.
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