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I Attacked Bike Rider Because I Was Hungry —Man Arrested For Attempted Murder

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I Attacked Bike Rider Because I Was Hungry —Man Arrested For Attempted Murder

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Bello Sikiru, a 29-year-old bricklayer who nearly killed commercial motorcyclist Olaitan Abel in order to steal his motorcycle, has said that hunger drove him to the crime.

Sikiru was arrested for attempted murder and robbery by officers from Owode Yewa Division in Ogun State.

The suspect stopped the commercial motorcyclist on November 26 under the pretext of going somewhere,

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However, on getting to an isolated spot in Ago Baba community, via Owode, he asked the rider to let him disembark, only for him to grab his (the rider’s) neck, in an attempt to strangle him. But the victim reportedly struggled with him until they both fell.

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Bent on achieving his aim, the suspect was said to have grabbed a shovel and started hitting it on the victim’s head, neck and back.

With no strength to fight back, the victim pretended to be dead. Satisfied with what he had done, the suspect left him and went for his bike and pushed it further into the bush to hide it.

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But at that moment, the victim got up and ran towards a nearby poultry. Seeing the move, the suspect knew he would be in trouble if the news should spread, so he dropped the bike and went after the victim.  However, he turned back when the space between them was so wide, and went through a bushy path to escape.

It was further learnt that when Abel narrated his ordeal to the poultry workers, they immediately alerted the Divisional Police Officer in charge of Owode Yewa Division, CSP Mohammed Suleiman Baba, who deployed detectives to the scene of the incident.

The victim was rushed to a nearby hospital while the police mounted a manhunt for the suspect.

Unknown to him, the news of his act had gone before him, and when he came from the bush path into a street, holding a shovel stained with blood, a small crowd was waiting for him. The police were called, and in order to be sure that he was the victim’s attacker, he was taken to the hospital where Olaitan was being treated. He was nailed by the victim’s confirmation of his criminal act against him.

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In an interview, 40-year-old Abel, from Ebute via Ilaro, but living at Ago Baba, close to Owode, narrated his experience thus: “I left Ago Baba to pick passengers at Owode. At around 12 p.m., a man (Sikiru) waved me down and asked me to take him to Ago Baba. We worked out a deal, and I chose him. He told me to stop when we got to a point in front of a building so he could disembark. Then he grabbed my neck from behind and wrapped his hands tightly around it. He wanted to twist it, but I started dragging it with him to get out of his grasp.

“In the process, we both fell with the motorcycle and struggling and turning. He wanted to overpower me while I was also making efforts to be free. Unknown to me, there was a shovel in front of the house. He picked it and started using it to give me cuts on the head. I struggled to get up and was initially using my hands to block the shovel from hitting my head, but at a point, my hands became weak.

“He pushed me into a bushy path  beside the building and continued hitting my head, neck and back with the sharp end of the shovel, inflicting cuts on me.

“When I became powerless, I pretended to be dead. When he noticed that I was no longer moving, he lifted my hands and legs, one after the other, and thought so too. He stopped using the shovel on me and stood up.

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“At that time, I started crawling towards the roadside. As I stood up, he saw me, left the motorcycle and started pursuing me. I ran towards a nearby poultry, bleeding heavily, then he turned back when he couldn’t catch up with me. It was the poultry workers who ran to me when I fell by their side. They called security operatives and I was taken to a hospital.”

In his confession, Sikiru, aged 29 and married with a child, said: I am a bricklayer. Before the incident, I didn’t get a job to do. The  ones I did before then had yet to be paid for. And my wife was at home, heavily pregnant with our second child.

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“On the day I committed the crime, I was very hungry. I called the man I worked for but he didn’t pick the calls. I called all the people i knew for help but they were all telling me that they didn’t have money. And I needed to eat.

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“I stood by the roadside, thinking of what to do. I saw a bikeman and flagged him down. I told him to take me to Ago Baba, and he billed me N400. I begged him to take N300 from me, though I didn’t have it, and he agreed. My aim was to go to a friend who lives there and used to help me. I believed he would give me the money to pay for my fare. I would also eat there, and I was sure he would give me something to take home. But I didn’t call my friend ahead.

 

 

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