Footballer stabs mechanic to death over age difference

 20-year-old aspiring football player from Afikpo
North, Ebonyi State, Jacob pictured above has
been arrested by the Lagos state Police command
for killing a mechanic, Moruf Sanni by stabbing
him to death over an arguement regarding age
difference at Iwaya,Yaba on Monday May 25th.
According to reports, the victim, Moruf had an
argument and a fight with someone in his area
simply identified as 'Somebody', over who was
older on Sunday May 24th. The fight was  then
settled by the elders in the area.
Angered by Moruf's claim that he was older and
was not going to give him respect, 'Somebody'
contacted his friend, Jacob to teach Moruf a
lesson.
Jacob accosted the deceased in his compound and
didn't teach him a lesson but stabbed him
repeatedly on the neck and head and killed him.
He was arrested by the residents of the area who
witnessed the incident and chained to the corpse.
Father of the deceased, Mr Lukman, who is a taxi
driver, said he had gone in search of fuel and as
he returned, a neighbor ran to his house to
inform him that somebody was fighting his son
“Somebody ran to my house. He said a
strange man was fighting with my son. I
immediately rushed there, only to see the
corpse of my son. The suspect was tied to
my son’s corpse. I simply thanked him for
killing my son and walked away.”
The victim's mother according to a relative of the
deceased lost her mind immediately she saw her
son's corpse because the deceased was the
second son she had lost.
“February 20 of this year made it
exactly 3 years that the first child of the
family was killed. A police stray bullet hit
him when the police came to look for some
hoodlums. So, when this one happened
again, their mother just ran away and has
not been seen since then.”the relative said
A police source who spoke on condition of
anonymity said the suspect when interrogated
gave a different version of events.
“He said they went for a birthday party
on Sunday night and it was there they had
a disagreement. The following morning, he
confronted Moruf and the deceased then
brought out a knife which he collected
from him. He said Moruf then got a bottle
and it was while he wanted to block him
from using it that it mistakenly stabbed
him in the neck.”the police source said
The father of the deceased has asked for his
son's body for burial but the corpse has been
deposited at a mortuary while the police says they
are investigating the matter.