Two friends Saheed Hamza and Christopher Ugbeni engaged in a bloody fight over a woman at Tafawa Balewa Square, Lagos, southwest Nigeria. The fight which resulted to Christopher stabbing his friend Saheed Hamza.
Ugbeni,who is a resident of Catholic Mission Street, Lagos Island, and hails from Edo State, has been arrested by the police from the Lion Building Division, Campbell Street.According to his report, he said the fight was as a result of his friend Hamza was trying to snatch his girlfriend.
Hamza was rushed to the General Hospital, Lagos Island, after he was stabbed. He is currently receiving treatment.
Police investigation revealed that trouble broke out between the two friends when Ugbeni reportedly saw Hamza making love advances to his girlfriend.
Ugbeni was said to have challenged his friend and that it degenerated into a fight during which the suspect broke a bottle and stabbed Hamza in the stomach. During interrogation following his arrest, Ugbeni confessed to the crime and said he had warned his friend on several occasions to desist from making love advances to his girlfriend, but he would not listen.
“I stabbed my friend to teach him a lesson and stop him from romancing with my girlfriend,” Ugbeni allegedly told the police.
After investigation by Corporal Afu Victor, the suspect was charged before a Tinubu magistrate’s court, Lagos on a two-count charge of stabbing and attempted murder.
The offence, the prosecutor, Inspector I. Okeke said, contravened sections 228(1) and 243 of the criminal laws of Lagos State, 2011. The accused pleaded guilty to the charge in the open court and Chief Magistrate Y. R. Pinheiro adjourned the matter till 14 January, 2014 for sentence.
2 comments :
I think they are mad, jobless, sensless nd morons, where ladies full ground watin for men to aproch them, they need to be jail for distruptin peace of d community. Oyinlomo said so
You can say that again...Hehehehe
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