MAN KILLED NEIGHBOR OVER GENERATOR FUME

The life of a man was ended by his neighbor over generator fume, the incident was narrated by the son of the deceased, Adeola Okanlawan, on Tuesday

He told an Igbosere High Court in Lagos how his father was killed with a machete after complaining of smoke coming from a neighbor's electricity generator.
In his court testimony as the first prosecution witness, Adeola said that their neighbor, one Ibrahim Tijani, killed his father with a cutlass in a disagreement over generator smoke.
He said that his late father had called the defendant to complain about the smoke that was coming out of his generator set into his room.
According to Adeola, his father asked the defendant to change the position of the generator set to stop the smoke from entering his room, but the defendant refused to do so.
“Disagreement between my father and our neighbor over smoke coming out from the neighbor's generator set, caused the death of my father.
“My father had to push the generator away from its former position but did not throw it away.

“The defendant fought with my father which led to his death.
“When the defendant was cutting my father with a cutlass, I pleaded with him not to kill my father, but he refused to listen to me,”Adeola said in court.