By Gbenga Sodeinde Ado Ekiti
A 16-year old secondary school student in Ekiti State, Mathew Favour on Thursday evening lost his life after being machete by another
student, Kehinde Timilehin within the school premises.
Favour, who was in Senior Secondary 2 before his untimely death was
said to have been in juju contest with the suspect on who actually had
superior power during which he was stabbed in the chest and later
died at the Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital(EKSUTH), Ado
Ekiti.
Several sources confirmed to journalists on Friday at the school that
Favour, who was from Ebira extraction of Kogi State, actually
brought the weapons but was killed after the axe and knife wrapped
with white and red scarf could not pierce the suspect who
overpowered him and stabbed him in self defence.
The school has now been taken over by police with the main gate under
lock and key due to fear of alleged reprisal attack which emanated
from threat issued by the deceased’s family that they would invade the
school in protest on Friday.
A police hilux van with over ten policemen were stationed at the gate
with few teachers allowed entry into the school while students who
reported as early as 7am were turned back.
However, before the crisis degenerated to the level of stabbing each
other, the two were said to have had altercation over ownership of a
football earlier that day.
Narrating how the incident happened, the School Principal, Mr
Ebenezer Falayi and his Vice, Mr. Olurotimi Olaoluwa, explained that
the incident occurred around 2.15pm at a far section of the
institution after the school had closed .
Falayi said the students had held closing and had dispersed before the
noise emanated from that troubled section where the boy was stabbed
before teachers were mobilized to the place to whisk the victim to
EKSUTH.
“This incident really saddened us, because it could have been avoided.
What I gathered from students who were at the spot of the gory
incident was that, the duo were arguing over who had superior power
and the deceased had earlier gone home to bring all those weapons
which could not pierce the suspect when used on him.
“I was told that the suspect later overpowered him and collected
those weapons and stabbed the victim in the chest. Our teachers,
including myself, my Vice and Registrar alongside other teachers who
were resident on campus here rushed him to EKSUTH. We even took the
suspect along.
“The victim was put on life support, but that could not help the
situation, he died in the hospital. I had to quickly call the DPO of
Odo Ado Police Station who reinforced his men and contacted police
station at Oke Ila to prevent the suspect from being killed by highly
enraged deceased’s family members.
“The hospital insisted on doing the autopsy before releasing the
corpse but the family resisted it. They later released the corpse to
the family when it nearly caused trouble in the hospital.
“The police also took the suspect to custody . But I had to beg for
security beef up around the school when there was threat that 30
students will be killed in reprisal attack today(Friday)”, Falayi
stated.
The Police Public Relations Officer, Ekiti Command, DSP Caleb
Ikechukwu , said he has not been officially briefed about the killing.
But a police source confirmed that “the suspect was immediately taken
to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) at the Police Command
shortly after the deceased was confirmed dead”, he revealed
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