Terrible: Lagos businessman killed in Ajegunle for not ‘settling’ area boys

by ‘Jola Sotubo

 The family of a Lagos businessman has been thrown into mourning after he was allegedly killed by some touts popularly called “Area boys” in Ajegunle over his refusal to give them money.

The  practice, popularly called “settling”, involves a person parting with money as a bribe so he can go about his business in peace. Unfortunately for  Charles Ugwu he refused to “settle” the area boys and this led to one of them striking him leading to his death.

Mr. Ugwu was killed while his wife watched helplessly at Uzor Street, Ajegunle, on the 24th of September 2013.

Nigerian Eye reports:

The incident was said to have occurred at  A tyre dealer, Ugwu was said to have been accosted by two area boys, identified as Saturday and Chimezie, while offloading goods from a vehicle to his shop.

The deceased’s wife, Stella, who claimed to have witnessed the incident, told newmen that her husband had resisted the thugs’ efforts to extort money from him resulting in the assault on her husband.

She said, “Around 9pm on that day, two young men, known as Saturday and Chimezie, accosted us saying they would not allow us to continue working until we settle them.

“We asked them why we should pay them because the goods had nothing to do with the hoodlums. Saturday was “annoyed; he walked away only to return with stones, which he threw at us. When my husband cautioned him to stop causing trouble, Saturday picked up a “stick and struck Ugwu on the neck.”

Ugwu was said to have fallen to the ground while all efforts to revive him failed.

It was learnt that immediately after Ugwu was killed, the Divisional Police Officer of Ajegunle Police Station, Mr. Abayomi Agbana, was contacted. Agbana was said to have dispatched policemen to the area and the two suspects were arrested.

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