The life of a 39-year-old man, identified as Sunday Orishagbemi, was cut short on Friday when he was trying to broker peace between two men quarreling over urination in Zango Daji Quarters in the Adavi Local Government Area of Kogi State.
It was gathered that the deceased lost his life after he was stabbed.
The incident was confirmed by the Kogi State Police Public Relations Officer, SP William Ovye Ayah, in an interview with journalists in Lokoja, the state capital, on Saturday.
Ayah disclosed that the quarrel started in the evening of Friday when a friend of the deceased, described as a vulcanizer at Ganaja junction, Lokoja, branched to urinate close to a building owned by one of the residents of the quarters.
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The owner of the building, according to an eyewitness, resisted the action and a quarrel broke out between them.
Concerned about the development, the deceased came in to settle the quarrel between his friend and the boy.
In the process, the son of the owner of the house was said to have brought out a knife and stabbed Orishagbemi to death.
According to the Kogi State Command image maker, the deceased was killed at Okada Park at Zango Daji, adding that the suspect had been arrested by the police for investigation.
He promised that the suspect would be arraigned in court for prosecution as soon as the investigation is concluded in the case.