Tailors in Lagos Island murder 22 year old apprentice
A 22 years old apprentice was beaten to death by some tailors for alleged theft at Obadina area of Lagos Island early hour of Sunday .
The apprentice, identified as Hakeem Mujib was learnt to had went to a 2-storey building situated at 7a Obadina street, of Obe street to rest with his friend called Kehinde around 2am while returning from an errand been sent by his boss.
According to eye witnesses, Hakeem boss who has office around Massey children hospital area sent him to deliver some newly sew clothes for internal linning around 1.30am and while returning at about 2am, he decided to stay with another apprentice friend in that building because he was too tired.
Sources narrated, “it was while Hakeem was knocking the main gate of the penthouse on the 2-storey building being occupied by some tailors, also working at the midnight that they demanded who he was looking for at that hour”.
“When he mentioned Kehinde, his friend and identified himself to be tailoring appreciate too, the tailors who didn’t know his friend accused him of trying to be spy for armed robbers who may later invade their shop and rob them of their belongings”, source revealed.
It was also gathered that the deceased explanation of his mission there, the tailors went and brought dangerous weapons like cutlasses, sticks, iron rods and others and started beating Hakeem, an indigene of Oyo State.
Some youths, residing at the next building to where the crime was committed revealed to our correspondent that it was the shouting of the deceased which woke them up and all efforts they made to release him went on deaf ears of attacking tailors.
According to them, “When we got to the 2nd floor of the house, they’ve locked the gate, so we didn’t get access to enter and rescue the boy. Around 5am when we went to alert other residents and CDA members in the area, the tailors have brought his dead body to the front of the building, they even poured hot pap into his ears to ascertain whether he was staging death. When they realized he was dead they fled before the CDA members and others residents came”.
Relatives of the deceased and his boss along with other tailors in the area were informed and a distress call was made, which brought an emergency ambulance that came and removed the remains to IDH Yaba mortuary for autopsy, while the case was said to have been reported to the Police at Lion building, Area ‘A’ headquarters, Lagos Island.
However, the Obadina CDA members were seen locking up the rooms and shops in the building.
