A Yaba Magistrate’s Court on Friday remanded one Taiye Adebayo for allegedly stabbing his colleague, Shonibare Surajudeen, to death during an altercation.

The police brought the 25-year-old defendant before Magistrate L.Y. Balogun on a one-count charge bordering on murder.

Adebayo was alleged to have stabbed the 36-year-old Surajudeen while they were quarrelling, although the cause of the quarrel was not disclosed in court.

According to the information gathered in court, Adebayo confronted the deceased, Sarajudeen, over the undisclosed issue, and they started quarrelling, and in the course of their quarrel, the defendant, Adebayo, allegedly used a knife to stab him.

The deceased was, however, rushed to the Mainland General Hospital, Yaba, but was pronounced dead on arrival by a medical doctor on duty.

The police prosecutor, Chekwube Okeh, told the court that the defendant committed the offence on November 19, 2023 at Ilaje, the Ajah area of Lagos State around 1.29 pm.

According to Okeh, the offence committed by the defendant is contrary to Section 222 and punishable under Section 223 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.

The charge read, “That you, Taiye Adebayo, on the 19th day of November, 2023, at about 0129hrs, at Ilaje, Ajah, Lagos State, in the Lagos Magisterial District, did unlawfully kill one Shonibare Surajudeen ‘m’ aged 36 years, by stabbing him with a knife and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 222 and punishable under Section 223 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.”

The pleas of the defendants were not taken.

Okeh prayed the court to remand the defendant to a correctional centre pending the outcome of legal advice from the office of the Directorate of Public Prosecutions.

Magistrate Balogun, while granting the prosecutor’s request, remanded the defendant to the Kirikiri Correctional Centre pending the outcome of the legal advice from the DPP.

Balogun also adjourned the case till January 22, 2024, for the DPP’s advice.

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