A Naval Rating Who Was Allegedly Drunk Stabs Lagos Speaker’s Aide’s Sister To Death

The story of a Naval rating who is yet to be identified was reported on Saturday, to have been arrested by police operatives attached to Ilemba Hausa Division and promptly transferred to the SCIID on the instructions of the Lagos state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Imohimi Edgal, following a report that he stabbed a woman to death.

Meanwhile the naval rating who stabbed a woman identified as Taibat Badru, with a knife and on the back, is currently being held by detectives attached to the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (SCIID), Panti, Yaba, Lagos.

The incident according to media reports occurred on Friday night at Egan village, a riverine community in Ojo Local Government Area of Lagos State, and the victim who was rushed to Alimosho General Hospital, Igando, died later of excessive loss of blood.

However the cause of the misunderstanding that eventually led to the incident was not ascertained as the time of writing this, though some sources claim it might not be unconnected with struggle for the Baaleship position in the community. 

CP Edgal was said to have stepped into the matter following complaint by Mr. Musbau Rasak, an aide to the Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa.

According to a reliable source: “The naval rating, who was recently deployed from Port Harcourt to Lagos, arrived the village in company with a friend, armed with a knife. On arrival at the village, the suspect bought some drinks and got himself drunk before embarking on the murderous act. The fight actually started between the suspect and son of the deceased woman, named Quadri.”

The source added that there had always been quarrels and fights between the two families struggling to become the Baale of the community. 

“But this one that led to the death of the woman started between the naval man and the son of the deceased named Quadri. May be because he heard that they always insulted his father that was why he came to avenge the insult. He came to the village with one of his friends, with dagger in his pocket.

All of a sudden, we heard noise between him and Quadri. Quadri now ran into their house to inform his mother about the scuffle. The mother rushed out and grabbed hold of the naval rating.

The suspect suddenly brought out his dagger and stabbed her at the back. She started bleeding profusely. When efforts to stop the blood failed, sympathisers rushed her to the Igando General Hospital, where she eventually died.”

Confirming the incident, the Chief Press Secretary (CPS) to the Speaker of Lagos State House of Assembly, Rasak, in an interview disclosed that the deceased is his sister.

Rasak also mourned the deceased on his Facebook wall. He wrote:

“Taibat Akanke, my blood, my immediate younger sister, omo Iya Ajara sun ree oo. You were cut down in your prime. The one who killed you, who condemned you to a painful, brutal death will have justice of Almighty Allah visited on him.”

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