See what happened after a Soldier catches his girlfriend with Alfa

A soldier has reportedly killed an Islamic cleric for reportedly snatching his girlfriend in Iberekedo area of Badagry in Lagos.



Nigerian Tribune reports that the Islamic scholar, Muhammed Ambali Obadina, was in charge of the mosque in Iberekodo where he mainly taught Quran. Speaking on the incident, Taiwo Obadina, the deceased’s elder brother, said: “On the day of the incident, my brother had just left the mosque, when he went to Iya Biliki’s shop that the two of them could go home together. “Iya Biliki was preparing to go home, when the soldier came and asked about the guys who snatched his girlfriend but the woman quickly responded that nobody was in her shop, apart from Alfa.

“The soldier was said to have enquired about Alfa and asked to see the Islamic scholar, who by then was not in front of the shop, where they were standing. Alfa came out of the shop only for the soldier to start slapping, kicking and punching him

. “Iya Biliki ran to the neighbourhood to call residents to come and rescue Alfa but the soldier had taken him away, before they arrived. Not even the vigilante members on the area could rescue Alfa from the soldier.”

The deceased’s cousin, Adewale Akinsanya who also narrated how the incident happened, revealed that, “it was already late in the night and people could not go to the barracks that night so they concluded that they would go and bail him the following day.

“When they got to the barracks, the army officials told them that there was nobody with such names in their custody and they even said that nobody was brought in there the previous night.

It was later in the afternoon of the following day that they saw his body by the road side, not too far from the barracks.

” It was also gathered that the said Iya Biliki could only identify the soldier who perpetrated the act when army officials brought out some of their officers.

After the matter was reported at the Badagry police station, it was taken to the homicide section of the State Criminal Investigations Department (SCID) and the remains of the late cleric was committed to mother earth last week since it was impossible to carry out an autopsy to ascertain the cause of the death.

The woman in the middle of the matter was said to have fled after the incident as she was being persistently harassed by the alleged killer soldier’s colleagues for identifying the culprit.

 The police officers at the SCID confirmed that investigations were on going, with a senior officer revealing that the police were making “the necessary documentation to arrest the suspect.

 “You know he is a soldier and we cannot just arrest him at the barracks like that. We want to write to the Army authority for them to hand over the suspect to us for prosecution.”