Graphic pic: Trader kills man for "under-pricing" his goods

A trader at Alaba International Market Ojo,
Lawrence Ikonne has been arrested for
allegedly killing a buyer, Isa Yaya over the
price of his secondhand air conditioner.
According to reports, the incident happened at
Ikonne’s house at Afromedia Estate,
Okokomaiko, Lagos where Ikonne had invited
Yaya to. When they got to the house, the two
of them went inside a room to bring out the
air conditioner, and then they started haggling
over the price. Yaya allegedly insisted on
buying the air conditioner below N5, 000- a
price which did not go down well with Ikonne.
It resulted into a fight and Ikonne allegedly hit
Yaya with a plank resulting in his death...
During interrogation, the suspect said:
“I had not met the young man before. I met
him that morning at the Alaba market, and
asked him to buy one of my appliances: an
air conditioner. He actually looked like a cart
pusher. When we got home, we both went in
to remove the product, and we brought it
outside for negotiation. As we continued, he
said he would pay less than N5, 000. I
replied that he should assist me to return it
to where we took it from, but he refused. In
the process, we started fighting. He even
asked me to pay him for helping me bring it
out. I was mad, and I hit his belly with a
plank. When I realised he had fainted, I tied
him with a rope and dragged him into a
corner. I also fled the house.”
It was one of Ikonne’s co-tenants who noticed
Yaya’s tied up corpse, raised an alarm, and
reported the case to the Okokomaiko police
station.
Source: Punch