It started as a squabble between two ladies. One was the landlord’s
daughter, the other a tenant’s little sister. In time, it graduated to
a brawl. People, including the landlord, came to separate them. And
there was peace – or so the people thought. Just when everyone was just
settling down with what he or she was doing, there was a fresh
commotion.
The two ladies had gone back at each other. This time,...
viciously. By the time it all ended, one of the ladies lay dead. It was
the landlord’s daughter, named Rhoda. It was said that her alleged
assailant, the tenant’s little sister named Happiness, stabbed her in
the chest. Her dead body is now in a morgue in the Isolo area of Lagos.
Rhoda, a 23-year-old hairdresser and mother of two (she was nursing the
last one before her death) was living in her father’s house, at No. 23
Odulaju Street, Sabo, with her children. Her father Oladuyoye Abel is a
pastor with Christ Apostolic Church.
Her alleged killer, Happiness, 19, from Nnewi South, Anambra State and
a salesgirl at Alaba International Market, Ojo, said she never intended
to kill Rhoda. According to her it was Rhoda who wanted to stab her.
Narrating the incident, Happened said she returned from the Lagos
International Trade Fair to notice that her bathroom slippers were not
at the entrance of her room. She started looking for them and saw
Rhoda’s first child of about four years wearing them.
She continued: “I was cautioning the little girl and I didn’t know that
her mother was by the well-side. Instead of Rhoda to caution her child,
she
started asking the little girl why she should wear the slippers of a
valueless, worthless, miserable and good-for-nothing girl. She was
calling me other unprintable names. It was from then that fight
erupted and her father and my brother intervened immediately and
separated us. That was about 7.30pm. Her father was angry with her and
he asked her if she was the only lady in the compound that every time,
she would quarrel with people.”
Happiness said, in annoyance, the old man went inside the house and
started throwing out his daughter’s belongings, asking her to “leave
the house as he is fed up with her trouble. My brother also cautioned
me that this shouldn’t be the reason to fight. I
wanted to go inside when she rushed at me from behind and I shouted and
drew the attention of people that thought that the fight had ended and
I fell on the door of the tenants’ kitchen and she was holding my
jugular.
"Her mother was there, I didn’t know how she got a kitchen knife on the
floor probably left by a tenant that was cooking and wanted to stab me.
I
overpowered her and took it from her and it slipped through my finger
and I stabbed her. It was later that I heard that it was on the chest
that I stabbed her."
Happiness is undergoing interrogation at the homicide section of SIB in Yaba, Lagos.
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