Peacemaking Goes Wrong As Man Is Stabbed To Death While Settling A Fight

Somewhere in Kogi State, a 39-year-old man, identified as Sunday Orishagbemi, has been stabbed to death while trying to settle a quarrel between two men in Zango Daji Quarters in the Adavi Local Government Area of Kogi State.

The tragedy, which was confirmed by the Kogi State Police Public Relations Officer, SP William Ovye Ayah, occured in the evening of Friday when a friend of the deceased, described as a vulcanizer at Ganaja junction, Lokoja, stopped to urinate close to a building owned by one of the residents of the quarters.

According to an eyewitness, the owner of the building resisted the action and a quarrel began between them.

Concerned about the development, the deceased went out of his way to settle the quarrel between his friend and the boy.

In the process, the son of the owner of the house brought out a knife and stabbed Orishagbemi to death.

Ayah, who confirmed the story in an interview with journalists in Lokoja on Saturday, said the deceased was killed at Okada Park at Zango Daji, adding that the suspect had been arrested by the police for investigation.

He promised that the suspect would be arraigned in court for prosecution as soon as the investigation was concluded in the case.