A 53-year-old Olalekan Okeowo has been stabbed to death in an uncompleted building at Salvation Estate in the Owode community, Ajah area of Lagos State.
The deceased left behind seven children, including a seven-month-old set of twins.
gathered that the incident occurred around 1am on Sunday when the victim was asleep.
It was learnt that Okeowo, who engaged in menial jobs, returned home on Saturday night, had his meal and went to bed.
Tragedy, however, struck when a yet-to-be-identified assailant made his way into the building at midnight and stabbed him to death.
The deceased’s wife, Titilayo, who is nursing seven-month-old twins, said she heard her husband begging for his life when she woke up.
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She said “We moved into the uncompleted building about 15 years ago and we covered one of the rooms where we sleep in the night but my husband does not sleep in the same room with us. He used to sleep in the other room which is more like a sitting room where he placed a bed with a mosquito net. He was outside on Saturday evening and he came in around 11pm.
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