A 12-year-old boy, named Samson Egunje, has been accused of allegedly stabbing his 10-year-old friend, Samuel Igbekele, in the Ikotun area of Lagos State for teasing him, thereby causing his death. Punch newspaper covers the whole story:
The incident happened on Saturday on Omoboriowo Street.
Residents said the suspect, a primary six pupil, had been looking for the victim all day, saying he abused him in the morning and threatening that he would stab him in revenge.
Egunje was said to have stabbed Samuel with a bottle in the neck that evening while he (Samuel), a primary three pupil, ran errand for a neighbour.
After the attack, the victim reportedly held his neck as he ran across the road in a frantic effort to get to his parents’ house which was a few kilometres away.
Samuel, after taking some feeble steps, was said to have collapsed.
A resident, Ibrahim Sulaiman, said he saw him on the floor in a pool of blood that night.
He said, “I was under a tent where some people had had a wedding ceremony. I saw some kids playing with bottles and I drove them away.
“After I finished drinking with my friends, I went to a woman selling noodles and asked her to prepare some for me and that I would come back for it.
“While returning for my noodles, I saw the woman beaming a torch on the boy, and when I asked her who he was, she said she did not know him.”
The victim’s father, Solomon, a bricklayer, said his landlord’s son alerted him to the incident and he took him for medical treatment.
He explained that Samuel was about to eat his dinner on the fateful night when the neighbour sent him on an errand.
