Bello, Falola’s body after he was stabbed
A 19-year-old scrap metal scavenger, Mohammed
Bello, is in custody of the Department of Criminal
Investigation, Yaba, Lagos for allegedly stabbing a
generator repairer, Taiwo Falola, to death during an
argument over the sale of rabbits in Abbatoir area of
Agege, Lagos.
The police said Falola, who reared the rabbits, got
into an argument with Bello when he refused to sell
his baby rabbits.
Bello allegedly inflicted a three-inch injury on Falola’s
neck, causing the deceased to bleed and die before
he could even get to the hospital where he was
rushed to.
The deceased’s uncle, Mutiu Adebayo, told our
correspondent that one of Falola’s friends rushed to
their house that Saturday, on July 4, 2015, and told
him Falola had got into an argument and had been
stabbed.
“We went to the police division at Abattoir and we
were told he had been taken to hospital. By the time
we got there, he was already dead. He had even been
taken to the mortuary,” Adebayo said.
Twenty-five-year-old Falola was said to have been
rearing rabbits for some years and when one of his
rabbits had new babies, he offered them for sale.
Saturday PUNCH learnt that the culprit saw the
rabbits in the cage and asked if he wanted to sell
them, but Falola said he did not want to sell to him.
An argument ensued and Bello allegedly stabbed
Falola to death.
Falola has been breeding rabbits for some years, and
one of them just had babies, which he put in a cage
to sell outside his house.
Saturday PUNCH learnt that Falola had initially had an
altercation with another resident of the area over the
baby rabbits and he became suspicious of Bello when
he asked about his baby rabbits.
Residents claimed Bello was a violent young man who
attacked residents at little provocation in the area.
The police said after the suspect stabbed Falola in the
neck, he ran away from the scene but eyewitnesses
gave him a chase and caught him.
Saturday PUNCH learnt that Bello was restrained with
a rope after he had stabbed one of the men who
caught him.
Bello, who said he was from Sokoto, however denied
the crime blatantly.
He said, “My brother, Sanusi, is the one who stabbed
him and told the people I did it. It was my brother
that stabbed him. But they said I was the one who did
it. I know nobody in Lagos that is why they implicated
me. I did not do it. The knife belongs to Sanusi.
“I gather scrap metals for sale but I don’t have much
money. Sanusi is richer than me and has decided to
use that to deal with me.”

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May God save us from untimely death

God save us from all devilish scavenger amen

What a sad story....R.I.P falola

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RIP. I love Rabbits!!!