Man Sentenced To 10 Years In Jail For Stabbing Friend To Death Over Who Will Emerge Winner In The 2015 General Election

A man identified as Kamoru Kushimo, who stabbed his friend to death while during a heated argument over who would win the general election of 2015, was on Tuesday, January 5th, sentenced to 10 years imprisonment by a Lagos State High Court sitting in Igbosere.

The Judge, Justice Sedoten Ogunsanya, sentenced him, after going back and rechecking the facts and proof before her.

Justice Ogunsanya found Kushimo, the accused, guilty of the offence of manslaughter and sentenced him according to what the law says.

Kushimo, the accused, was arraigned on February 10, 2016, on a count charge of manslaughter levelled against him by Lagos State.

The incident began after the deceased returned from the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, rally to the viewing centre where he and the convict who was supporting All Progressive Congress, APC, started arguing about which party will win the elections.

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While during their heated argument, the convict and the deceased engaged in a fight and the convict told the deceased that it seems the alcoholic bitters he was drinking had intoxicated him so much that he was saying rubbish.

The deceased was not happy and went to pick a knife to fight the convict, and the convict too ran to a nearby place to pick a broken bottle and stab the deceased on his chest and back respectively, which led to his untimely death.

When the residents of the area were taking the convict to the hospital, they were then told that the deceased was dead, the convict was reverted and taken to the Police Station.

The prosecutor identified as Mr. Adebayo Haroun, while at the arraignment of the convict, informed the court that the convict committed the offence on November 5, 2014.

Mr Adebayo Haroun stated that the convict stabbed the deceased identified as Mubarak Olawale Salau, with a broken larger beer bottle on the chest and the left side of his back respectively.

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