SAD:Trader Kills Buyer During Price Negotiation

This unfortunate sad tale befell a 26-year-old trader, Mr Lawrence Ikonne,  a trader on Afro Close, Afromedia Estate, Okokomaiko, Lagos who deals on electronic appliances and 22-year-old Isa Yaya who both got into a fight over disagreement in the price of an air-conditioner.

Punch reports that the pair met at the Alaba International Market, on Friday, October 19, where the trader Ikonne invited Yaya to his house for a business transaction. The business transaction was later learnt to be a fairly used air-conditioner.

When Yaya got to his house, the two went inside to carry the air-conditioner out and started arguing over the actual price. According to the Punch report, it was gathered that Yaya had insisted on paying the sum of N5,000 which was not well received by Ikonne.

As the argument continued, a scuffle ensued which led to the 26-year-old Ikonne carrying a plank and using it on Yaya which led to his death.

Mr. Lawrence Ikonne was thereafter arrested and told police during interrogation that had asked Yaya to either pay N5, 000 or assist him to return the commodity to where they brought it from but Yaya had refused. Ikonne added that he felt insulted by this attitude.

“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,” Ikonne reportedly told the Police during interrogation.

26-year-old Ikonne who is from the Isiala-Ngwa South Local Government Area of Abia State, has been transferred to the State Criminal Investigations Department, Yaba, and he would be charged to court soon.