Lagos court remands driver accused of stabbing couple during drinks bill dispute

A 40-year-old commercialized autobus driver, Kabiru Olajide, has been remanded astatine the Ikoyi Correctional Centre aft appearing earlier an Igbosere Magistrate’s Court successful Lagos implicit allegations that helium stabbed a hubby and woman during a quality implicit an unpaid N75,000 drinks bill.

Olajide was arraigned connected a five-count complaint bordering connected battle occasioning harm, malicious damage, stealing and behaviour apt to origin a breach of nationalist peace.

According to the police, the incidental occurred connected May 10, 2026, astatine a barroom located astatine No. 2, Olamide Igiaba Street, Oribanwa Phase 2, Ibeju-Lekki, owned by Chimezie Okpoechi and his wife, Kate Okpoechi.

The prosecution alleged that the suspect and respective accomplices, who stay astatine large, held a day gathering astatine the barroom wherever they consumed beers and different drinks valued astatine N75,000.

Police said the disagreement began erstwhile the barroom owners demanded outgo for the drinks allegedly consumed by the group.

Rather than settee the bill, Olajide and his accomplices were accused of attacking the couple, with the suspect allegedly utilizing a breached vessel to stab some victims, leaving them with varying degrees of injuries.

The prosecution further alleged that the suspects damaged respective properties wrong the premises, including the windscreen of a Toyota RAV4,...