Lagos – A 52 year-old man, Rasaq Babalola is cooling his feet in Police cell at Idimu division over alleged conspired and paid assassins to eliminate his neighbour, Emeka Anozie, over Covid-19 palliative during the current lockdown.
Authoritative source at the Idimu Police station, Lagos confirmed that the accused who have made confessional statement to the police on the matter indicted his wife “Mama Raheem” and in-law, all at large as the master planners of the attack.
The incident happened at Agbo Komolafe Street, Unity Estate, Idimu area of Egbeda, Lagos, where they reside.
Source said, the suspect, Rasaq, has been arrested and detained at the Police Station while efforts were being made to arrest his wife, who he said fled after the plot was foiled and the assassins had escaped.
It was reliably gathered that, trouble started after the victim, Emeka Anozie, engaged the services of a chef to cook food in order to share to people in their neighborhood as palliative during the current lockdown.
The couple was said not to be happy over the benevolence to the people and attempted to stop Anozie but he ignored them and went on cooking the food and shared to the people around.
Speaking with our correspondent on hospital bed, Anozie said, “later after the incident, Rasaq’s children were disturbing in the compound throwing stones at my window and I went to their mother to ask her to control their children since they were living upstairs in order not to destroy things in my apartment. The woman flared up and threatened to deal with me”.
Anozie said the next day, some armed men, about 14 of them, invaded his apartment, beat him to stupor, collected his phones, then brought him out to take him away with their waiting Toyota car before people in their neighbourhood frustrated them and they escaped.
Mr. Anozie then rushed to the Police in the pool of blood and he was referred to the hospital, where he was being treated when he received information that armed men in Military uniforms invaded his apartment looking for him in order to eliminate him.
However, when they did not see him, they attacked two of his younger brothers, destroyed his two televisions, other properties inside, looted his safe containing huge sums of money and escaped. He said that the operation was led by both Rasaq and his wife now at large.
When Rasaq was contacted, he admitted that he hired assassins including the armed soldiers to attack Mr. Anozie and blamed everything on his wife and in-laws, who he said arranged the whole thing.
It was gathered that it was not the first time such had been done on the tenants, who had lived in the house in the past, before the current incident happened.
When our correspondent visited Idimu Police Station, Rasaq was still detained while efforts to arrest his fleeing wife were being made by the Police.
