The Lagos State Police
Command has arrested a landlord, Gbade Metibemu, for allegedly stabbing his
tenant of four months, Bright Abraham, to death on Apollo Street in the Makoko
area of the state.
Punch learnt that Metibemu attacked the 35-year-old
Abia State indigene with a knife for refusing to vacate his plank apartment
after a week-long disagreement.
Punch’s correspondent
was told that the suspect had warned the victim to stop soiling the slum with
the faeces of his baby.
When the warning did
not yield any result, the suspect was reported to have threatened to kill
Abraham.
Last Thursday, around
10pm, the father of four was preparing to sleep when an argument ensued between
him and the landlord which degenerated into a fight.
Metibemu was alleged to
have got a knife with which he stabbed Abraham in the chest.
He allegedly rushed to
the Adekunle Police Station to report that he had been injured by his tenant.
He was, however, detained
when news filtered in that Abraham had died at the hospital where he was taken
to for treatment.
The Police Public Relations Officer, SP Dolapo Badmos,
confirmed the incident, adding that the suspect had been transferred to the
State Department of Criminal Investigation and Intelligence, Yaba.
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