Scavenger Stabs Generator Repairer To Death Over Rabbits (Photo)

A 19-year-old scrap metal scavenger, Mohammed Bello, is in custody of the Department of Criminal Investigation, Yaba, Lagos for allegedly stabbing a generator repairer, Taiwo Falola, to death during an argument over the sale of rabbits in Abbatoir area of Agege, Lagos.

The police said Falola, who reared the rabbits, got into an argument with Bello when he refused to sell his baby rabbits.

Bello allegedly inflicted a three-inch injury on Falola’s neck, causing the deceased to bleed and die before he could even get to the hospital where he was rushed to.

The deceased’s uncle, Mutiu Adebayo, said that one of Falola’s friends rushed to their house that Saturday, on July 4, 2015, and told him Falola had got into an argument and had been stabbed.

“We went to the police division at Abattoir and we were told he had been taken to hospital. By the time we got there, he was already dead. He had even been taken to the mortuary,” Adebayo said. Bello, who said he was from Sokoto, however denied the crime blatantly. He said, 

“My brother, Sanusi, is the one who stabbed him and told the people I did it. It was my brother that stabbed him. But they said I was the one who did it. I know nobody in Lagos that is why they implicated me. I did not do it. The knife belongs to Sanusi. I gather scrap metals for sale but I don’t have much money. Sanusi is richer than me and has decided to use that to deal with me.”