Lagos Island Teenagers Hack Boy to Death With Machetes After Community Football Match
Yesterday, a
fight broke out between two armed group of boys at the Palm Church/Aroloya
Junction on Lagos Island after a community football match, and it led to
the killing of one boy now identified as ‘Gulf 2’.
According to Punch,
the boys suspected to be cult members were returning from the Campos
Stadium when a fight broke out between the two factions around 2.30pm. Gulf 2
was chased down to Aroloya Street before they caught up with him and hacked him
to death.
And then the
boys reportedly went on rampage, but fled when the police was called to the
scene.
The corpse of
the victim has been deposited in a morgue.
An eyewitness
said the fight was over bottles of drink. He said:
“There was a competition at the stadium. The football matches were usually played between 1am and 4am. The stadium was lighted because of the match. Policemen were usually outside. The fight started after a match on Wednesday.
“Some teenagers were drinking and the fans of the other team came to their side and poured their drinks away. I do not know who won the match. So, the two groups started fighting. Gulf 2 and some other boys were pursued to Aroloya Street.
“They hurled stones at their victims and the boy fell. That was how they hacked him to death. We put a distress call to the Adeniji Adele Divisional Police Officer, who came around with his men, but the teenagers ran away when they saw police vans.
“The clash engulfed Palm Church, Itafaji and Aroloya streets. Till now, we cannot identify the boy; we do not know his address. When they heard the policemen shooting, all of them took to their heels.”
Another said
that the boys aren’t older than 17. He said:
“These boys do not live on our streets. The oldest among them is around 17 years old.
“They do not rob, but they walk about in the night, smoking hemp and fighting one another. As adults, we are also afraid of them. There is always bloodshed anywhere they fight.
“They start coming out by 1am. The government should raid the Lagos Island and pick all these teenagers. We want all these boys to be arrested. No responsible teenager walks around in the night.”
Confirming the
killing, Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Dolapo Badmos, said
the police is working to arrest the boys.
She said:
“Information was received that some miscreants engaged one another in a supremacy fight in the area.
“Police patrol teams went to the area, but the hoodlums took to their heels. The corpse of one of them was recovered.
“The victim’s name and address are still unknown. The corpse has been removed and deposited at the Lagos Island General Hospital’s morgue for an autopsy. Meanwhile, effort is on to arrest the fleeing hoodlums.”
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