Man kills friend who bailed him out of prison

A friend who bails you out of prison is a friend indeed! What else does Kamoru Kushimo expect from his friend, Olawale Salau whom he recently stabbed to death in the Iyana Ipaja area of Lagos State?

PUNCH reports that Kushimo, had been in detention for attacking someone in the neighbourhood but was bailed through Salau’s efforts.

Salau, 25, after bailing his friend had been talking to the jobless Kushimo to change his aggressive behavior and “get a life”. But Kushimo reportedly became angry and accused the deceased of reporting him to people who had been scolding him.

A resident who witnessed it said: “In the afternoon of that fateful day, he verbally assaulted him for hours while we were all drinking at the club. Salau did not answer him and people asked Kushimo to stop, but he refused. Then he said he wanted their friendship to end.

“Salau told him that if that was what he wanted, he was satisfied with the decision. But we all became surprised as Kushimo said he wanted to fight with him.

“While we were all trying to settle the quarrel, Kushimo grabbed a bottle and smashed it against the wall. The splinters fell on me and injured another friend of ours. But Salau held him from using the bottle. I tried separating them.”

The friends went their separate ways after some community leaders intervened.

But the report has it that Kushimo later went to waylay Salau in the dark, armed with a knife.
The resident who spoke to the newspaper said he had gone to attend to the injured friend identified as Flash, when he was returning to the street and saw the suspect racing towards him.

“I didn’t know he had stabbed Salau in the chest and armpit with the knife. But I ran after him. He wanted to jump the fence of a house into the next street, but I grabbed him.

“He pleaded with me to release him, but I told him he was going nowhere. It was then I saw Salau screaming that he had been stabbed.

“I handed Kushimo over to an elderly man and tried to help Salau up. But he was down and nobody even came near because it was dark.”

The deceased’s boss, Taofeek Olaoye, said Salau, a lottery agent, could not make it as he died before he could get medical help. He was confirmed dead at Lagos State University Teaching Hospital at Ikeja, where he was confirmed dead.

The newspaper reports that the Police Public Relations Officer in Lagos, DSP Kenneth Nwosu confirmed the incident.

 “It involved two friends who were apparently fighting and one stabbed the other to death. The suspect is in police custody while the remains of Salau have been taken to the morgue,” he said.
PUNCH