Babatunde Omoyeni, a web
designer who planned to travel on December 10th, to spend
his Christmas and New Year holidays in the United States of America, has been
killed in Lagos over N50.
According to report, he
boarded a bus on Saturday and gave the conductor N500, but the conductor
told him he didn’t have N450 change, because the fare was N50. When they got to
the bus stop, Omoyeni demanded his change and a fight ensued.
A man in the bus
intervened and the fight ended. But the conductor, identified as Eletu,
who was still upset by the incident, followed the victim to his house, armed with a broken bottle, banged on the gate of the
victim's house.
“As the deceased opened
the gate, Eletu stabbed him. Babatunde took to his heels, but the conductor
chased him. Unfortunately, he fell down and the conductor stabbed him
repeatedly,” he added.
The victim's younger
sister, Blessing Omoyeni, said his brother would not have died if he was
rescued on time.
She said he spent over one
hour in a pool of his own blood before he was rushed to the Lagos University
Teaching Hospital, Idi Araba.
She said:
“Nobody was ready to
assist him to the hospital. A man had to throw himself in front of a commercial
bus and asked the passengers to disembark, before he could get help. “He was
rushed to LUTH, but they were turned back at the gate by a doctor who
pronounced him dead on arrival around 12am.
“People started beating
the conductor and almost killed him before he was rescued and taken to the
Aguda Police Division.”
It was learnt that the
victim’s corpse was deposited at the Isolo General Hospital mortuary.
His girlfriend, Temiloluwa
Ogundayo, said Babatunde was preparing for their engagement and recounted the
bizarre encounter she had with him after his death.
She said: “We have dated
for over one year and he told me to meet my sister to ask for the requirement
for our engagement. He said we would go there on Monday.
“On that Saturday he
called me around 5pm to prepare food for him that he would soon be home. I had
done everything and was waiting for him in the house till 11pm when I drifted
off into sleep.
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| Eletu |
“Around 1am, he came in
and slept beside me. He rubbed my head with his hand and I asked him if he had
eaten his food, but he said I should not bother, that he was fine.
“I went back to sleep and
it was around 6am that somebody called me and asked if I knew he was dead. I
jumped up and looked around the bathroom and kitchen to know if he was there,
but I couldn’t find him.”
The conductor said the
victim attacked him first.
He said:
“I am also a driver and I
had parked my bus at about 7pm when I saw a co-driver who offered to take me
home. “It was along the way that he decided to pick passengers and there were
eight of them in the bus.
“I collected money from
seven of them, but he refused to pay and said he knew me on the street.
“It was at the bus stop
that he broke a bottle and stabbed me in the forehead and cheek. I also got the
same bottle, but unfortunately I stabbed him in the neck and he died.”
The case is still ongoing.
Punch
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