By Abimbola Ogunnaike
Kogi State Police Command has confirmed that a 39-year-old man, identified as Sunday Orishagbemi, lost his life after he was stabbed death while trying to settle a quarrel between two men over urination in Zango Daji Quarters in the Adavi Local Government Area of the state on Friday, April 21,2023.
The tragedy, which has been confirmed by the State Police Public Relations Officer, SP William Ovye Ayah, started in the evening of Friday, 21 April, 2023 when a friend of the deceased, described as a vulcanizer at Ganaja junction, Lokoja, branched to urinate close to a building owned by one of the residents of the quarters.
According to an eyewitness, the owner of the building resisted the action and a quarrel began between them.
Concerned about the development, the deceased came in to settle the quarrel between his friend and the boy.
In the process, the son of the owner of the house was said to have brought out a knife and stabbed Orishagbemi to death.
Ayah, who confirmed the story in an interview with newsmen in Lokoja, the state capital on Saturday, April 22, 2023 said the deceased was killed at Okada Park at Zango Daji, adding that the suspect had been arrested by the police for investigation.
The state police image maker promised that the suspect would be arraigned in court for prosecution as soon as the investigation is concluded in the case.
