By Christopher Oji
A landlord son has stabbed a tenant to death over parking space in Ajah Lagos .
The victim, Shonibare Oluwasegun, mini bus driver( korope)was allegedly stabbed to death during an argument with his landlord son, on Sunday night.
It was gathered that the deceased had parked his vehicle front of his compound, 24,Adewunmi Close, Ilaje Ajah and was about sleeping when his landlord’s son ,Taiye Adebayo, started knocking on his door, ordering him to come out.
It was gathered further that when the driver came out ,Adebayo ordered him to remove his bus where it was parked, but the late Oluwasegun refused to remove his vehicle, arguing that the space was his normal parking space.
A witness, Mathew ,said that there was a heated argument between the two,during which Adebayo allegedly stabbed Oluwasegun in different parts of his body.
Elder brother to the deceased, Shonibare Faid, said, he got a call from a private number at about 1:am, Sunday morning, 19th of November 2023, thia my brother was dead .
He said that he reported the matter at Ajah Police station and when he arrived his brother’s house,he was shown his lifeless body in the pool of his blood.
” I was told that his landlord’s son, Adebayo, called him out to repark his bus and that on reaching where his mini bus was, he asked Adebayo why he should tell him to repark knowing that the space had been his normal parking position .
“He was about to start the bus when Adebayo stabbed him and absconded with all his family when it was evident he was dead.
” The most annoying thing is that we were told that his mother instigated him to continue stabbing my brother. We took the body to Mainland Hospital Mortuary, Yaba. We would have buried him according to Islamic rite, but the police said that there was need for autopsy.
” All we want is justice. I heard that Adebayo has stabbed more than three persons before my brother’s case that resulted in his death. He has always got free in other cases because his family is influential. All we demand is justice “.Faid said.
Police sources hinted that the case was being investigated at the Ajah Division but that no arrest had been made since the incident occurred.
The suspect’s parents,other members of the family as well as tenants were said to have fled the building, apparently out of fear of being attacked by an angry mob or arrested by the Police, in connection with the matter.