There
was mild drama on Thursday at the Ondo state police command
headquarters as a middle-age man allegedly held for the murder of his
boss over unpaid salary,
protested that he should not be paraded alongside suspected armed
robbers and other criminals insisting that his case was just a minor one
of two-fighting.
But
unknown to the suspect, Adewale Adegoroye, the fight which landed him
in police detention had turned into alleged murder as he later found out
that the victim died as a result of injuries sustained during the
fight.
According
to the state commissioner of Police, Gbenga Adeyanju, the suspect
allegedly attacked one Akin Akinmulero, the manager of Ondo Multipurpose
Cooperative Union, by stabbing him with a knife yesterday morning.
The
suspect, according to the CP, who is also a staff of the union was said
to have snatched the sum of N700,000 from the victim after stabbing
him. The
victim was said to have been rushed to the State Specialist Hospital
where he later died. The suspect, who was in shock after hearing about
the death of his boss when journalist wanted to interview him, narrated
his side of the story.
He
said he started working with the victim last year September and he has
not received any salary since then. He also said that he was hungry and
when he learnt that the man was going to the bank to collect money, he
went to block him.
He
said when he met him and told him to give him part of the money he was
being owed, the man refused and they started fighting and he collected
the money from him after stabbing him with a knife and was running away
with the money.
He
was held by people at the scene and handed over to the police. The two
men, it was learnt had been working together for sometime.
In
tears, the suspect who said he only took the action because of hunger
said he did not know it would lead to the victim’s death.
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