Normalcy returns to Balogun market as police arrest suspect
Normalcy has returned to the popular Balogun market in Lagos Island after a free-for-all fight between hoodlums and miscreants.
In a statement issued on Wednesday by the Spokesman for the Lagos Police Command, Benjamin Hundeyin, the Police said the fight was not a tribal clash, adding that an arrest has been made.
The Command explained that during the fight, one Ebuka Adindu from Abia State allegedly stabbed one Sodiq Ibrahim from Kogi State to death and that Adindu in turn stabbed himself on the shoulder and became unconscious.
It added that Adindu has been arrested in the hospital where he was being treated.
” The Lagos State Police Command hereby wish to inform the general public that there was no tribal clash or disturbance between any ethnic groups and the others inside Balogun Market today. There was an incident of a free-for-all fight between some hoodlums and miscreants in the Balogun Market in the early hours of today at around 11am.
” During the fight, one Ebuka Adindu from Abia State stabbed one Sodiq Ibrahim from Kogi State to death and the said Ebuka Adindu in turn stabbed himself on the shoulder and became unconscious. He is currently under arrest in the hospital where he is being treated. Investigation into the matter will be concluded and he will be prosecuted after he has been discharged from the hospital. There was no loss of innocent lives or injury to any person or damage to goods and properties of marketers inside Balogun Market.
“The Lagos State Police Command wish to reiterate that the incident is not a tribal clash but purely between miscreants and hoodlums around the Balogun Market. Normalcy has been restored. Marketers and the general public on the Island and other parts of Lagos State are encouraged to go about their businesses and other lawful endeavors without fear or apprehension”, said the statement.
The Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Command, CP Olohundare Jimoh, called on all residents to remain law-abiding and cooperate with the police Command to sustain existing peace in the state and not to spread fear in the mind of the public.
