A Lagos-based human rights lawyer, Mr. Kunle Fadipe has been
murdered in his home in Lagos, southwest Nigeria.
He was stabbed to death last night by a man who invaded his
residence at Harmony Estate, near Karaole Estate, College Road in Ifako Ijaiye
Local Government Area.
According to a resident who craved for anonymity, at about
11:30 p.m. when the estate was plunged into darkness following power outage,
the lawyer sent his son to go and switch on the electricity generating set.
And
as the boy came out from the house the assailant who was armed with a knife
seized the boy and ordered him to take him to his father.
“One of the security guards in the estate rushed in and as
the knifeman was trying to snatch the guard’s gun, another guard came in and
shot the man in the leg. He was eventually overpowered and arrested but before
then the man had also stabbed Fadipe’s mother in-law, son and daughter,’’ the
eyewitness said.
When P.M.NEWS visited the scene this morning, scores of
sympathisers had gathered at Fadipe’s house. The Chairman of Ifako-Ijaiye Local
Government, Toba Oke, Comrade Lawal
Balogun of Committee for the Defence of Human Rights, CDHR, the Divisional
Police Officer in charge of Iju Police Station, Olatunji Ajimuda, Mrs. Folasade
Daniel who is the acting DPO of Pen Cinema Police Station, as well as the Police Area Crime Officer at Area ‘G’ Police
Command Ogba, were all there.
The motive for the attack could not be immediately
ascertained. However, the police said they had taken the suspect into custody
and that the incident would be thoroughly investigated.
A woman identified as Mama Bola, who was crying uncontrollably,
said she is one of those who benefited from the free legal services of the late
Fadipe.
She appealed to the authorities to ensure that the
perpetrators of the attack are brought to justice speedily.
Reports, claimed that the killer disclosed that he was contracted to kill
the lawyer from Abeokuta, Ogun state capital.
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