This SSS 2 student was stabbed to death during a football match in Lagos (PHOTO)

A friendly street football match between
youths in Okota, Lagos, turned tragic,
weekend, after one of the players stabbed
an opponent to death during a
misunderstanding.




Vanguard gathered that some youths from
Oseni Liade Street were playing football at
the end of the street, when a group of boys
from neighbouring Taiwo Street came to join
them. But the visiting youths were told to
wait for their turn.

At the end of the first round, another set of
players, among who were the visiting
youths, were expected to take over the
football pitch. But eyewitnesses said they
were disallowed, an action that
degenerated into a fight. In the process, one of them, Kayode
Babayanju, of 8, Taiwo Street, was alleged
to have stabbed another youth, Michael
Tanko, in the hollow of his left elbow.

Tanko, a Senior Secondary School 2 student
of Hills International School, reportedly
chased his assailant until he became dizzy
and slumped. Unfortunately, he died
moments before reaching the hospital he
was rushed to.

Doctors at the hospital revealed that he bled
to death, as the arteries in the hollow of the
elbow were cut.

Information at Vanguard disposal
revealed that the deceased was an orphan,
who came to live with his uncle in Lagos last
year, after the demise of his only sibling.

When Vanguard visited the deceased
home yesterday, his guardian, Mr. Oke Obi
Odiaka, was still in shock.

The mother of the
fleeing assailant and her relatives came
visiting at about 4p.m. Immediately the
woman sighted the bereaved family, she went on her knees and begged in tears. However, the family insisted that they
produce their fleeing son to the police. Confirming the incident, Lagos State Police
Command’s spokesman, Superintendent
Dolapo Badmus, said:

“Effort is being intensified to arrest
the suspect who fled the scene
immediately after committing the
offence. The corpse has been
deposited at the Isolo General Hospital
morgue.”