Lagos police struggle to unravel killers of unknown man

The Lagos State Police Command is battling to unravel the killers of a yet-to-be identified man whose corpse was left in the Orile area of Lagos State.PUNCH Metro learnt that the deceased was abandoned on Kekere Ekun Street in a pool of blood and with a stab wound.Residents were said to have alerted the police after seeing the body in the wee hours of December 27, 2014.The police from the Orile division were said to have evacuated the corpse to the Lagos Mainland Hospital morgue.A security source explained to PUNCH Metro that information available to the police showed the victim was murdered by a notorious gangster, identified simply as White.He said, “The incident happened on Kekere Ekun Street, around Orile Coker. We learnt a man called White had a fight with the victim the previous day and people separated them and they both went their separate ways.“After the fight, the suspect got a machete which he used on the victim before he fled the area.“People have, however, not been able to identify the victim and some of the residents have refused to say anything to the police on the case.”Our correspondent was told that when the Orile police could not get a breakthrough on the case, the matter was transferred to the state Criminal Investigation Department, Yaba.PUNCH Metro gathered that the SCID police found it difficult to crack the case as no one gave the police information that could lead to the arrest of the suspect or identification of the victim.The Police Public Relations Officer, Kenneth Nwosu, had yet to return a call seeking his reaction.