A teenager (name withheld) at Aboru high school, Iyana Ipaja, Lagos, has allegedly killed a security guard who tried to rape her on Saturday on Olalem
A teenager (name withheld) at Aboru high school, Iyana Ipaja, Lagos, has allegedly killed a security guard who tried to rape her on Saturday on Olalemide Street, Aboru, PremiumTimes is reporting.
Bala Elkana, the Lagos police spokesperson said on Sunday that Babatunde Ishola, the 49-year-old security guard was stabbed to death by the 16-year-old girl, an SS3 student of Aboru high school at his residence at Ogundele street, Aboru.
According to a police statement, the teenager went to the house of the deceased on Saturday to help him fetch water as he lives alone. The late Ishola was a friend to the suspect’s father and she had always been helping him with house chores. While she was helping out with the water, on 7/3/2020, he attempted raping her and she picked a knife from the room and stabbed him.
When the Oke Odo Police Station received the report, the corpse of the man was found lying in a pool of his blood. The corpse was evacuated to the hospital for post mortem examination while the suspect was arrested and the knife she used in stabbing the deceased person was recovered.
Meanwhile, Mr Elkana said the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, has directed the immediate transfer of the case to the State Criminal Investigation Department Yaba for discreet investigation, while the young girl has been taken to the hospital for medical and forensic examination.
