The Lagos State Police arrested a man, 29 year old Ekanem
Enodan for allegedly stabbing his friend
46 year old commercial motorcycle operator, Nicolas Goddonu, to death
during an argument over paying for a N50 bottle of water at Oke-Ira area, Ogba,
Lagos.
According to reports, On June 8, Goddonu, a father of five
visited his friend Enodan at his shop in the company of his younger brother. He
allegedly went into the shop at about 10:50pm and took a bottle of water which
cost N50 without paying for it. Enodan allegedly tried to stop Goddonu from
leaving his shop with the water by hitting him on his head with a bottle.
Goddonu immediately slumped to the ground.
Enodan, thinking that Goddonu was pretending, walked over
him, took back his bottled water and walked back into his shop.
Goddonu’s brother checked on him to make sure he was fine
but raised the alarm when he realized his brother wasn’t breathing and was
promptly rushed to the Ifako General Hospital, but was confirmed dead on
arrival.
However, there were several versions of what really killed
Goddonu, while some of them alleged that the Enodan stabbed him to death,
others said he only pushed him, which caused him to hit his head on the hard
floor.
An eye witness Ufom Ekanem said:
‘They played a lot’. “The deceased and the suspects were
friends. That was not the first time he would collect something from the shop
and run away. “But he usually paid later. At times, the shop owner would be
chasing the motorcyclist and at other times he would forcefully drag whatever
Goddunu collected from his shop. “On that fateful day, the shop owner only
pushed the okadaman in the chest, while attempting to collect the bottled water
from him. He fell in the process and became unconscious.”
Another eyewitness, Biodun Odufare, said:
“The deceased was from Egun, while the suspect is from Cross
River State. At about 11p.m., an argument which everybody concluded was their
normal play, began. “But we suspected that the okadaman was drunk. As he was
leaving the shop with the bottled water, the shop owner threw an empty bottle
of soft drink at him.
“The bottle hit the kiosk and shattered, with one of its
broken parts hitting Nicolas in the chest. He fell and was confiremd dead
inhospital.” “He fell down and became unconscious. Later, we heard that he died
at the hospital.”
The Spokesperson for the Lagos State Police Command, Dolapo
Badmus, confirmed the incident saying:
“On June 9, at about 1a.m., one Mitchonou Suru, 16, reported
at Pen-Cinema Division that at about 10:50p.m. the previous day, one Nicolas
Goddonu, 46, was hit with a bottle by one Ekanem Enodan, 29, of Baba Dada
Estate, Opic, Ogun State, during a quarrel between them.
“The victim was rushed to Ifako general hospital where he
later died. Suspect was arrested and detained while corpse was deposited at the
hospital’s mortuary for autopsy.”
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