Brother hacks elder sibling to death over dirty dishes

Firstclass newsline~Terible incident struck on Majente Street, in
Akute, Ogun State, when Ekene, the younger brother of 25-year-old
Kenneth Chikwado Agbamone stabbed him to death following an
al­tercation about washing dirty plates.
Kenneth and Ekene had a heated argument because the younger one failed
to wash dirty plates the family ate with earlier in the evening.
Trouble began when Kenneth returned from a church service that fateful
night of July 14, 2015, at 9pm, and promptly observed that his
young­er brother, Ekene did not wash the dirty plates stacked in the
kitchen.
Incidentally, the church where Kenneth was a member had declared a
one-day fasting and prayer programme, which he participated in, and
went to church later in the day for the normal congregational prayer
to end the fasting.
Before leaving for the church service, he had cooked rice, and served
his mother, who was roasting and selling corn in the street, where the
family lives. So returning from the church service and seeing that
Ekene did not wash the dirty dishes, he got angry and demanded that
the younger brother should promptly wash the plates. Ekene allegedly
re­fused to do so. This result­ed in a heated argument between them.
At some point, Kenneth, it was said, drew his belt and hit Ekene twice
and left the house to buy sachet water.
However, doom awaited him at home. Ekene was still seething with rage.
He was said to have taken a knife from the kitchen, held it behind his
back and hid behind the door, waiting for Kenneth to return. The
moment Kenneth walked through the door, Ekene stabbed him on the left
side of his chest. Meanwhile, their mother, Cynthia, was taking her
bath at the time. As she came into the house from the bathroom,
Cynthia found her son on the ground in a pool of his blood. It was her
prolonged scream of anguish that rented the air and attracted
neighbours, who rushed in to find out what was wrong in the Agbamone
home.
Soon word of the death of Kenneth spread fast in the neighbourhood and
people trooped into the street to behold Kenneth's body that was laid
in the middle of the street before it was taken to the hospital.
At the hospital, a drama played out as the medical facility refused to
handle the case, claiming that it was only a maternity clinic and
ill-equipped for the emergency. However, the doctor in-charge briefly
examined the victim and noted that he had been stabbed and was brought
in lifeless.
Firstclass newsline learnt from a neighbour of the Agbamone's that
Ekene was said to have fainted when some men wrestled him to the
ground, to prevent him from running away. After he passed out, they
left him near the drainage. But when he regained consciousness, he
still looked dazed, not knowing where he was or how he got there. When
he was told that he stabbed Kenneth in the chest, and that he had been
taken to the clinic, he seemed hor­rified and ran to the clinic, where
he learnt that his el­der brother had died from the fatal injuries
caused by the stabbing.
The source further disclosed that it was the clinic that alerted the
nearest police station after confirming that the victim was dead, and
requested that a team be dispatched to investigate the matter. But a
police officer at the station was said to have retorted that the
available patrol van had no fuel in it. This response,Sunday
Sungathered, prompted the doctor to go in person to the station to
file a re­port, but he was allegedly beaten by the police. Moreover, a
female auxil­iary nurse attached to the clinic was similarly beaten,
while one of the male staff was detained at the station overnight.
However, all attempts to speak to the doctor in charge of the
maternity clinic proved abortive.
A female member of the church where Kenneth be­longed, who happens to
be familiar with the family blamed his mother for the unfortunate
incident, ar­guing that she had laid the foundation for the tragic
incident because of the bad way she raised Ekene, the second son and
youngest child, who she claimed was over-pampered.
Her words: "Kenneth was the one that would clean and arrange the
house, fetch water, sweep, and do everything even though he had
younger siblings, who didn't do any domestic chores. They would just
leave every­thing for him to do. If the mother had cautioned the
younger brother, I don't think this incident would have happened. This
is a big lesson for all parents to love all their children equally.
The siblings never did anything, even the neighbours would testify to
this. I heard the mother crying that she can't live without Kenneth,
who was like a woman at home."
One of the residents in the area told a source that Ekene was
allegedly known to smoke Indian hemp and run around with touts in the
neigh­bourhood. As at the time of filing this report, the whereabouts
of the father of the children, could not be established as he was said
not to be living with the family in Ogun State. A neighbour said of
him, "He is not around, he doesn't live here."
Other neighbours said that Kenneth was a young man who loved
preach­ing the word of God to people in the streets. Hours before his
death, he was said to have preached to two young men smoking
cigarettes and urged them to receive Christ as their saviour.
A friend of his, Lanre, who owns a barbing salon, also revealed that
late Kenneth had prayed hard for a job. He disclosed that on the day
of his death, Kenneth had gotten two calls from two separate places,
where he was invited to take up em­ployment as a barber and
hairstylist. According to him, Kenneth knew how to cut hair but was
reluctant to work for people because it didn't bring in enough. He
wanted to start up his own business so he could take care of himself.
Lanre further said: "Kenneth believed in God. He had great faith. When
he saw girls around me, he always advised them not to go after men,
and to dress decently. He was a brilliant man; his spoken English was
sound, so I got close to him. He regularly came to my salon to give
people haircuts, and any money he made, he would give me to support my
shop."
Kenneth was the first of his mother's three children. He had a younger
sister, Ogechi, and Ekene, the alleged culprit, who is now at large.
All efforts made to speak with the bereaved mother of Kenneth were
unsuccessful.
The deceased was de­scribed by friends, church members and neighbours
as "a loving, gentle and easy going fellow who never wore a frown on
his face despite his circumstances.
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