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An Investigative Police Officer, IPO, Insp Israel Ojo, on Monday, January 2023, instructed an Ikeja Particular Offences Court docket how a Nollywood actor, Temitayo Phillips Ogunbusola, allegedly stabbed his neighbour, Oladotun Osho, to demise over a N1,000 electrical energy invoice.
The 32-year-old actor is being tried for homicide which he had pleaded not responsible to.
The incident occurred on Saturday seventeenth, Might 2020, at their dwelling positioned at No. 4, Sebil Kazeem, Cele-Igbe, Ikotun, Lagos.
Ojo instructed the courtroom he was an officer answerable for surveillance in Ikotun Division when the case was reported about 7.00 p.m. in Might 15, 2020
He was led in proof by the state counsel, Mrs Adebanke Ogunnde.
The police officer instructed the courtroom that the brother of the deceased, Joshua Osho reported the case on the station.
“Once I bought to the hospital the deceased was rushed to, I met him on a stretcher with a deep lower on his left chest, mendacity lifeless. I additionally met the defendant who had additionally sustained minor accidents, sitting down in entrance of the hospital with a knife in his palms,” the officer stated.
“He stated he wished to stab extra individuals however my group and I stylishly collected the knife from him and took him to the station.
“There have been many individuals, principally Hausa boys in entrance of the hospital and I requested what occurred they usually instructed me the defendant was apprehended when he wished to flee.
“I took the defendant to a hospital beside the station to deal with the accidents he sustained. His assertion was taken voluntarily whereas the assertion of the brother of the deceased was additionally taken.
“Investigation revealed that the deceased, with another tenants and the defendant, had points on NEPA invoice wherein the defendant refused to pay N1,000.
“The defendant angrily went inside the home, introduced out a desk knife and stabbed the deceased on the chest, following the disagreement,” he stated.
Whereas being cross-examined by the defence counsel, Mr Wale Ademoyejo, the witness stated he had been in service for 20 years and that he wrote an announcement for the defendant as a result of he was not in good temper.
The police officer stated he based mostly his assertion on what he was instructed and that the defendant additionally confirmed that he stabbed the deceased.
He additionally confirmed to the courtroom that he was conscious that the deceased, defendant and different tenants got here to the station within the morning of the alleged incident over the Nepa problem and the officer on responsibility warned them to keep up peace.
The witness, nevertheless, stated that he was not conscious that the defendant got here again once more to the station to complain that his neighbours didn’t permit him into the home.
Based on him, the defendant was given an opportunity to name his lawyer however he known as his aunt to the station as an alternative.
He additionally confirmed to the courtroom that he didn’t report the assertion of the defendant on his cellphone as a result of he was utilizing a small cellphone for the time being.
“The complainant stated that when the defendant picked up the knife, all of the occupants ran out of the room however the deceased drew nearer to him.
“The complainant, whereas making his assertion, stated that the defendant stabbed the deceased within the compound however after we bought to the home, not one of the tenants was prepared to jot down an announcement and I didn’t make any arrests.
“I known as a photographer to take an image of the deceased at their hospital and I can’t inform if this can be a case of manslaughter as a result of the defendant confirmed that he stabbed the deceased,” the witness stated.
The trial continues…
