A 16-year-old secondary school student in Ekiti state has died following
serious injuries he sustained when himself and his fellow classmate
were testing the superiority of their charms on Thursday, December
6th.According to reports, the deceased, Mathew Favour and the culprit,
Kehinde Timilehin, both students of Ado Grammar School in Ado Ekiti, the
state capital, were said to have engaged in a dispute over the
ownership of a ball before it degenerated into an argument over who had
more portent charms.Eyewitnesses say the deceased initiated the test for
superiority of charms when he rushed to his home and brought a small
axe and a knife wrapped in a white and red scarf and dared his
colleague to fight with him. The colleague overpowered him and in the
process, stabbed him in the chest with his knife.Favour, an indigene of
Ebira in Kogi state, was rushed to the Ekiti State University Teaching
Hospital where he died.Speaking on the incident, the principal of the
scool, Ebenezer Falayi, said the incident occurred at about 2.15pm
after the school had closed .“This incident really saddened us because
it could have been avoided. What I gathered from students who were at
the spot of the gory incident was that the duo were arguing over who had
superior power and the deceased had earlier gone home to bring all
those weapons which could not pierce the suspect when used on him. I was
told that the suspect later overpowered him, collected the weapons
and stabbed the victim in the chest. Our teachers, including myself, my
Vice and Registrar alongside other teachers who were resident on campus
here rushed him to EKSUTH. We even took the suspect along.The victim
was put on life support, but that could not help the situation, he died
in the hospital. I had to quickly call the DPO of Odo Ado Police Station
who reinforced his men and contacted the police station at Oke Ila to
prevent the suspect from being killed by highly enraged family members
of the deceased. The hospital insisted on doing the autopsy before
releasing the corpse but the family resisted this. They later released
the corpse to the family when it nearly caused trouble in the hospital.
The police also took the suspect into custody. But I had to beg for
security beef up around the school when there was a threat that 30
students will be killed in a reprisal attack today(Friday),’’ he said.16-yr-old student stabbed to death by his classmate while testing the superiroty of his charm
A 16-year-old secondary school student in Ekiti state has died following
serious injuries he sustained when himself and his fellow classmate
were testing the superiority of their charms on Thursday, December
6th.According to reports, the deceased, Mathew Favour and the culprit,
Kehinde Timilehin, both students of Ado Grammar School in Ado Ekiti, the
state capital, were said to have engaged in a dispute over the
ownership of a ball before it degenerated into an argument over who had
more portent charms.Eyewitnesses say the deceased initiated the test for
superiority of charms when he rushed to his home and brought a small
axe and a knife wrapped in a white and red scarf and dared his
colleague to fight with him. The colleague overpowered him and in the
process, stabbed him in the chest with his knife.Favour, an indigene of
Ebira in Kogi state, was rushed to the Ekiti State University Teaching
Hospital where he died.Speaking on the incident, the principal of the
scool, Ebenezer Falayi, said the incident occurred at about 2.15pm
after the school had closed .“This incident really saddened us because
it could have been avoided. What I gathered from students who were at
the spot of the gory incident was that the duo were arguing over who had
superior power and the deceased had earlier gone home to bring all
those weapons which could not pierce the suspect when used on him. I was
told that the suspect later overpowered him, collected the weapons
and stabbed the victim in the chest. Our teachers, including myself, my
Vice and Registrar alongside other teachers who were resident on campus
here rushed him to EKSUTH. We even took the suspect along.The victim
was put on life support, but that could not help the situation, he died
in the hospital. I had to quickly call the DPO of Odo Ado Police Station
who reinforced his men and contacted the police station at Oke Ila to
prevent the suspect from being killed by highly enraged family members
of the deceased. The hospital insisted on doing the autopsy before
releasing the corpse but the family resisted this. They later released
the corpse to the family when it nearly caused trouble in the hospital.
The police also took the suspect into custody. But I had to beg for
security beef up around the school when there was a threat that 30
students will be killed in a reprisal attack today(Friday),’’ he said.
