Nweke Chinonso, 30, is being held by the Criminal Investigations
Department, Yaba, Lagos for allegedly murdering his neighbour's, Kunle
Abiola.
Chinonso claims a spirit came over him, which made him carry out the act, Punch reports.
He narrated his side of the story:
“I
no longer go to church. I was relaxing in the front of my apartment at
100, Mba Street, Ajegunle, when my neighbours, Ismail and Kunle
(Abiola), told me to join them where they were sitting. I told them I
would not and they started to foment trouble.
I did not
want to associate with them because I don’t speak their language and I
can’t trust them. But while they were troubling me where I sat, Ismail
pinned my arms behind me and Kunle slapped me.
Immediately
he slapped me, I could not control myself anymore, it was like I was on
remote control as a spirit pushed me to go and take a kitchen knife. I
rushed in and took the knife, came back outside
and stabbed Kunle.”
The deceased was stabbed twice, one in the chest and jaw.
He added that Abiola had in the past slapped him for no concrete reasons.
“There
was even a time I went to a drinking joint in our area and saw him
(Abiola) there. As soon as I sat down, he came over and challenged me
for coming to the same joint where he drank. He slapped me right there
and I could not do anything,” he said.
Asked if there were other
issues that could warrant the alleged harassment he was suffering in the
hands of the deceased, Chinonso said there had never been any issue
between them.
As soon as Chinonso stabbed Abiola, he slumped and was rushed to the hospital as blood gushed from his chest and jaw.
A
resident, Saheed Adebisi, said the incident started when a fight broke
out between Ismail and Chinonso but Abiola only attempted to separate
them when he was stabbed.
“Chinonso stabbed him because he believed that Abiola was on the side of Ismail,” he said.
The
Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Kenneth Nwosu, who
confirmed the incident, said investigation was still ongoing and that
the suspect would be charged to court when it was completed.
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