A car wash attendant, Michael Taiwo, has allegedly
broken the spinal cord of his friend, Akeem Amoo,
after a scuffle between them.

PUNCH Metro learnt that 28-year-old Taiwo and Amoo were boyhood friends in the Alagbado area of Lagos State before a disagreement over age marred their relationship.

Our correspondent learnt that Amoo had been
admitted to an orthopaedic hospital in Lagos, while
Taiwo was charged to court by the police on Monday.

It was said the defendant, who claimed he was older, had accused the victim of being disrespectful to him whenever there was a discussion among their caucus in the community.

Our correspondent gathered that they kept each
other at arm’s length after several altercations on the issue.

On January 28, around 8pm, Amoo, a commercial
motorcyclist (popularly called okada rider), reportedly went to a car wash at Omisesan Junction– where Taiwo works – to wash his motorcycle.

Taiwo was said to have challenged Amoo to a duel
after accusing the latter of grazing his leg with the
tyre of his motorcycle.

In a show of strength, the suspect, it was learnt,
lifted Amoo up and smashed his back on the floor,
leading to what was later described by doctors as a
spinal cord injury.

Taiwo was later arrested and arraigned before an
Ikeja Magistrate’s Court sitting in the Ijaiye-Ojokoro
area of the state on one count of assault.

The charge read, “That you, Michael Taiwo, on
January 28, 2015, at about 7.40pm, at Omisesan
Junction, Alagbado, in the Ikeja Magisterial District,
did cause a grievous harm on Akeem Amoo by hitting him on ground full of stones which broke his
backbone and left ankle and thereby committed an
offence contrary to and punishable under Section
243 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State of Nigeria,
2011.”

The defendant, however, pleaded not guilty to the
offence.

He was granted bail by the presiding magistrate,
Mrs. T. Akani, in the sum of N100,000 with a surety,
who, according to her, must also present evidence of tax payment and means of livelihood to the court for verification.

The case was adjourned till March 23, 2015 for
mention.

source: www.punchng.com/metro-plus/attendant-breaks-friends-spinal-cord-over-age-claims/

Age is just a number and does not neccessarily goes with maturity. Their are some people who are over 50years yet they behave like ten years old spoilt brat e.g APC cyber attack dogs in nairaland.

Some people like this seniority die, some will want to be called Uncle or Aunty by everybody. Its very common in Lagos here

Some senseless individual are killing themselves over age





Like say that one go put food for their table

Hian. See joblessness. You're fighting over age as if it will add any value to your life. Some people carry this age thing on their head like gala in traffic.

Oya go and show your muscle in prison na. Idiatu

As for the one with the broken spinal cord, sorry for you o. O.Y.O is your case.

hian

This is just stupid and very avoidable... anger and foolishness rests in the bosom of fools

whoo DAT IDIAT NIDS TU B HANGED, UNHANGED AND HANGED AGAIN

this one Na original gobe

how can spinal cord be broken ? its back bone

Na broke people dey always ask for respect pass

What if his friend never walks again?

All for what?

Haa

na wa o..Wats with naija and age mentality sef

Ouch!

Engaging in fight just because of argument on age
Useless people abound in this country

Spinal what?
Na biscuit bone?

cococandy:
What if his friend never walks again?

All for what?

For age. I senior you you no senior me ish

ok

Instead of him to be crying about how he messed up his life to have ended up as a car washer, he's bragging over his age.

Now he has to face along jail term to learn his lesson.

SPINAL CORD KE?

Taiwo has now succeeded in proving to Amoo that he is older and Amoo now knows Taiwo is her senior but his spinal cord is broken. Where are we going? What has the age helped Taiwo to achieve in life? We quarrel over every rubbish and ruin lifes over every form of nonsense. I think Taiwo should be dealt with seriously to serve as deterrent to others.

And when such people see davido which is much younger. They hail him 'baba agba ' or 'babao'...meaning old one..smh for hypocrisy amongst d yorubas