A 20-year-old bakery worker, Rilwan Olalekan, on Tuesday appeared before an Ebute Meta Magistrates’ Court in Lagos for allegedly killing a miscreant over a loaf of bread.
The court, however, could not take Olalekan’s plea as Magistrate M.O. Olubi said that he needed the advice of the state’s Director of Public Prosecutions.
Olubi remanded the accused at the Ikoyi Prisons pending the DPP’s advice.
The prosecutor, Insp. Samuel Omoyeni, submitted that Olalekan killed the miscreant identified as Henry Femi during a fight over a loaf of bread on Sept. 14 at Ijora Badia.
He said the accused was on night duty as an attendant at the bakery when Femi and another miscreant walked into the bakery and demanded for two loaves of bread each.
Omoyeni submitted that the accused told the miscreants that he was not in a position to give them the loaves and that they should wait for the bakery owner.
He said Femi was not satisfied with the response and thus started a fight with the accused and stabbed him on his head.
The prosecutor said Femi died in a hospital where he was taken to.
Omoyeni said the alleged offence contravened Section 319 (1) of the Criminal Code of Lagos State and punishable with death.
The case has been adjourned till Dec. 15 for the DPP’s advice.
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