A trader in Lagos has been taken to court for stabbing his colleague
A 34-year-old trader in a popular market in
Lagos, Nonso Okolie, has been dragged to the Lagos Magistrates’ Court,
Tinubu, Lagos Island, over attempts to kill a fellow trader, Chidera
Obiagu.
Okolie was said to have stabbed Obiagu with a scissors in the right eye, hand, nose and left shoulder inside his shop, after an argument.
The
duo who are neighbours in the market on the Lagos Island, are said to
be at logger heads and have not been on talking terms for over three
years now, following an undisclosed disagreement.
Their
differences got to a head on Wednesday, February 11, 2015, when Obiagu
and another trader in the market whose name was given as Ifeanyi, were
said to be cracking jokes and jokingly told a female customer who had
entered Okolie’s shop, to be careful with her bag because there were
thieves around.
The warning made the customer hurriedly leave the shop without buying anything for fear of being dispossessed of her belongings.
The
statement which Okolie was said to have overheard, angered him and he
felt that his neighbours were indirectly calling him a thief.
He
confronted the men over the statement and it resulted in an argument,
which later degenerated into a fight between Okolie and Ifeanyi.
After other neighbours intervened, Okolie was said to have gone after Obiagu, the other party in the case.
They started another round of fighting and Okolie allegedly stabbed Obiagu several times with a pair of scissors.
The charges against him reads:
"That
you, Nonso Okolie, of No. 31/33 Martins Street, Lagos Island, on
February 11, 2015, did unlawfully attempted to kill one Chidera Obiagu
by using a pair of scissors to stab him on the eye, nose and shoulder."
Okolie
pleaded not guilty to the charges and was granted him bail in the sum
of N200,000, while the matter was adjourned till March 12, 2015
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