By Evelyn Usman, Olasunkanmi Akoni & ABDULWAHAB ABDULAH

Lagos—Widow of human rights lawyer, Kunle Fadipe who was stabbed to death last Thursday in his apartment at Harmony estate, College road, Ogba Lagos, by a middle_aged man has appealed to the police to ensure that the killer was brought to book.

This is just as the assailant with an undisclosed identity was yesterday said to be receiving treatment in an undisclosed hospital over injuries he sustained as he was fleeing the scene.

The widow, Mrs Kemi Fadipe who is yet to come to terms with the shock of her husband’s demise, also urged the police to ensure they get the assailant’s sponsors.

Describing how the tragedy which she said had thrown her family into mourning occurred, to sympathisers who thronged her residence, the widow said amidst tear; “My husband was a straight forward person who was not into any shady deal that would warrant this gruesome murder. I appeal to the police to ensure that they get the person that sent the killer.

“When the killer stormed our home, I thought he was a robber because he demanded for money. But the way he stabbed my husband showed that he was a professional killer and was sent to snuff life out of my husband.

“He stabbed my husband at the left side of the neck and the left armpit which indicated that he knew the most fatal places to strike at a human body.

“And from the way he acted, he was so much in a hurry. He started by asking for too many things at the same time and threatened to kill if his demand was not met. He started by asking for his laptop and phones as my husband was about giving him, he also demanded for money . We all cooperated with him but he was impatient.

“My husband went upstairs to get him some money . But he was still on the staircase when the attacker started slapping him. As my husband turned to ask why he was slapping him, he stabbed him in the neck.

“It was at that point I knew he was there for a deadly mission. He continued to stab him. At that point, my children went for their father’s rescue by attacking the invader with stools, broken bottles and anything we could lay our hands on”.

At this point, she broke down, with sympathisers consoling her.

One of the deceased’s children, Folarin who was said to have first been attacked by the assailant, while he had gone to put off the power generating set, also narrated how he was attacked.

According to him, “As I bent down to switch off the power generating set, someone struck me. As I looked up to see who it was, the man made to stab me with a knife but I blocked it with my hand and immediately rushed inside to alert my father who ran outside to see what the matter was.

“Immediately he sighted my father, he demanded for N500,000 , brandishing his knife at him. The man was so powerful that he never felt the impact of the objects we used on him .

“When I hit him with a USB , he did not bulge. I used stick on him, he did not wink. He concentrated rather on my father.

“It was only when we blindfolded him with a window blind that he fell and we prevented him from escaping. He acted like someone who had taken hard drugs”, Folarin narrated.

Among sympathisers who paid the family condolence visits were the Chairmen, Ejigbo Local Council Development Area , Kehinde Bamgbetan and Ifako Ijaiye Local Council Development Area Apostle Oke Oloruntoba.

Others included his professional colleagues among whom was Femi Falana.

Meanwhile the assailant who was arrested by the police was reportedly at the verge of being lynched after he was subdued.

He reportedly sustained serious injuries and was as at 7.30 pm yesterday, still in the intensive care unit in an undisclosed hospital.