Secondary School Student Stabs Senior to Death for Punishing Him

A Senior Secondary School student of Gaskiya College, Ijora Lagos, Saka Ahmed also known as Ejo, on Wednesday allegedly stabbed his senior, Saheed Jimoh, to death for punishing him.

According to Punch, the trouble started on Tuesday when 19-year-old Jimoh, who was a school prefect, punished Ejo for an offence he committed.

The punishment meted out on Ejo resulted to a fight between the duo outside the school premises after closing hours.

Ejo, who was alleged to have been lurking around a food canteen outside the school, on sighting Jimoh entering the school, ambushed him and stabbed him with a knife in the chest, and fled the scene. The victim was rushed to a private hospital where he gave up the ghost.

It was learnt that the incident was reported at the Amukoko Police Division.

Speaking on the matter, a family member of the deceased, Mr Shakiru Oluayo, a resident of Adejiyan Street, Amukoko area of the state said Jimoh was brought to Lagos in 2005 by his mother to continue his studies.

Oluayo revealed that the deceased had refused to go to school on Wednesday but rescinded his decision because he did not want to miss classes.