And they would never stop using a knife to fight. I wonder
what happened to their bare hands if at all they have to fight. The story;
For 30-year-old Nweke Chinonso, the tragic events of Sunday,
April 19, 2015, could as well be the handiwork of a spiritual influence or
force beyond his control.
“I do not know the spirit that got inside me that day,” he
began.
Chinonso, an Imo State indigene, was calm as he explained
that he should be seen as the victim of a supernatural force that took control
of him and made him to kill his neighbour, Kunle Abiola.
Chinonso, who is being held at the Department of Criminal
Investigations, Yaba, Lagos, told our correspondent that he only sat in the front
of his house to relax that Sunday morning when the deceased and another
neighbour came to trouble him.
“I no longer go to church,” he said. “I was relaxing in the
front of my apartment at 100, Mba Street, Ajegunle, when my neighbours, Ismail
and Kunle (Abiola), told me to join them where they were sitting. I told them I
would not and they started to foment trouble.
“I did not want to associate with them because I don’t speak
their language and I can’t trust them. But while they were troubling me where I
sat, Ismail pinned my arms behind me and Kunle slapped me.
“Immediately he slapped me, I could not control myself
anymore, it was like I was on remote control as a spirit pushed me to go and
take a kitchen knife. I rushed in and took the knife, came back outside and
stabbed Kunle.”
The deceased was stabbed twice – in the chest and jaw.
As incredible as Chinonso’s claim sounded, he swore he was
telling the truth.
He explained though, that Abiola had in the past slapped him
for no concrete reasons.
“There was even a time I went to a drinking joint in our
area and saw him (Abiola) there. As soon as I sat down, he came over and
challenged me for coming to the same joint where he drank. He slapped me right
there and I could not do anything,” Chinonso said.
Asked if there were other issues that could warrant the
alleged harassment he was suffering in the hands of the deceased, Chinonso told
Saturday PUNCH, there had never been any issue between them.
As soon as Chinonso stabbed Abiola, he slumped and was
rushed to the hospital as blood gushed from his chest and jaw.
Residents instantly restrained Chinonso, tied him up and
beat him as police were alerted to the incident. Abiola was pronounced dead on
arrival at the hospital
However, residents who spoke with our correspondent, said
Chinonso’s version of the story was all lies.
A resident, Saheed Adebisi, said the incident started when a
fight broke out between Ismail and Chinonso but Abiola only attempted to
separate them when he was stabbed.
“Chinonso stabbed him because he believed that Abiola was on
the side of Ismail,” he said.
The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Kenneth
Nwosu, who confirmed the incident, said investigation was still ongoing and
that the suspect would be charged to court when it was completed.
Punch
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