By Esther Onyegbula

Operatives of Lagos State Investigative Bureau, SCIB, have arrested two young men for reportedly threatening the life of a man in Lagos (names withheld).

The two suspects, identified as Ayodele Omotayo, 22, and Morris Kentible Bishop, 27, were arrested by detectives after the victim reported that his life was under threat, having received strange calls and threat messages from unknown persons, asking him not to step out of his house.

The man reported to the police, who began to investigate the case and successfully apprehended the suspects.

It was learned that the victim accommodated one of the suspects, Ayodele, a Squash trainer at Country Club, in his apartment when he noticed that Ayodele had no home. 

However, trouble started after the suspect bashed one of the vehicles parked in his benefactor’s compound and the victim disengaged his services and asked him to pack out of the apartment.

Vanguard gathered that the suspects purportedly called the victim with a private number and later sent a text message that got the victim scared.

Confessing to the crime, Ayodele said: “I was aware of the threat message my friend sent to him; we did not actually plan to kill him.

“Trouble started when he began to make passes at my lover, Damilola, who I started dating in August 2013.

“He went as far as telling me that he likes my girl and would not mind if I would allow him date her.”