A 25-year-old man, Eje Ebi, has been hacked to death by a cobbler, Adesina Osinowo, in the Ikorodu area of Lagos State.
Punch Metro gathered that the victim was hacked with machete in the head and hand when the suspect wanted to dispossess him of some money he was taking to the market to buy clothes.
"I brought him to stay with me in Ikorodu because of the killings in Jos.His wife and kid went to stay in our village in Afikpo North, Ebonyi State.
It was gathered that the suspect reported himself to security men, with blood stains all over his clothes.
Angry residents reportedly swooped on him and would have lynched him, but for the intervention of community elders who handed him over to the police.
The Public Relations Officer of the Igbo Council of Chiefs, Ikorodu, Chief Ibe Onyike, said he suspected that Eje was killed for a ritual purpose.
Onyike said the Igbo community in Ikorodu wanted to start a riot on the day of the incident, but he called for calm.
He claimed that the deceased's phones and money were no longer on him by the time the family recovered the corpse.