There was tension in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital, on Friday when an unknown soldier reportedly killed an operative of the Department of State Service over a minor disagreement.
It was gathered that the incident happened at the KSSD Hotel located at NTA road, Friday evening.
The soldier had accosted a young man suspected to be a “Yahoo Boy’ (internet fraudster) at the Hotel, in the process of apprehending him, the suspect sighted a familiar face who happened to be the late DSS man.
Things turned south when the DSS operative attempted to intervene and pleaded with the soldier to let the suspect off the hook.
The military officer who was pissed reportedly stabbed the DSS man in the neck, which led to his death hours after.
He was rushed to the state hospital but gave up the ghost minutes after.
A few minutes after, the DSS operatives were said to have stormed the hotel premises and taken the killer soldier into custody.
The spokesman of the Ekiti Command, ASP Sunday Abutu, confirmed that the victim was killed during an argument with some soldiers and that the police are investigating the matter.
“We heard that the DSS operative was killed during a hot argument with some soldiers yesterday evening.
“The deceased’s corpse had been deposited in the morgue. The perpetrators of the murder had been arrested.
“Let me also add that our detectives have started an investigation, and we will get to the root of the matter,” Abutu said in a report by DailyIndependent.
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