Ex-councillor stabs teenager for refusing advances
On
October 26, Mariam Abubakar (pictured above) went to Pearl Habour Night Club in Rochester
Garden Hotel, Festac to “catch weekend fun.” Her friend, who pleaded anonymity, said
they only went there “to hang out” when Babatunde, who was obviously
drunk, started to make advances to Abubakar.
She said, “She was not interested in him
so she did not answer when he called her. He was dancing and Mariam
(Abubakar) was sitting at a table. He was obviously drunk and he came to
pull her.
“He was manhandling her and she insisted
he should leave her alone. This did not go down well with Babatunde and
he was really angry. He went to a corner, took a bottle, broke it and
stabbed Mariam in the neck.”
According to the source, Babatunde fled the scene immediately.
A police source at Area E told our
correspondent that the preliminary report obtained indicated that the
incident occurred at about 1:30am. He said Abubakar bled profusely at
the scene before she was taken to Naval Hospital, Ojo by sympathisers at
the night club.
The source said she was not admitted because those who took her there could not produce a police report.
“That was when someone notified our station (Area E Command) and we went to take her to Ajeromi General Hospital,” he said.
It was learnt that as Abubakar was being taken to the general hospital, she went into a coma.
She was said to have been revived at the
general hospital. A nurse at the hospital, who craved anonymity, told
our correspondent that she had lost about 20 per cent of her blood.
Abubakar is currently under intensive care at the hospital.
However, the police said the night club
workers destroyed evidence at the scene of the alleged crime by cleaning
up Abubakar’s blood on the floor.
The hotel has currently been sealed off by the police because the management did not report the incident.
It was learnt that the police got wind
of Babatunde’s whereabouts, said to be holing up somewhere in Ikoyi and
called him to simply come and write a statement. But he was detained
immediately he got to the station.
The police spokesperson, Ngozi Braide, said she had not been briefed on the case.
Source: Punch
Source: Punch
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