23-year-old twins Elvis and Lewis Megwa were both stabbed while their 60 year old dad looked on.The grief-stricken Mr. Emmanuel Megwa delved into the seemingly harmless confrontation, which degenerated to a brutal attack on his family.
Mr. Megwa, who spoke in an emotion-laden
low tone, explained to Punch that on that night which turned out to be the worst day of his life, a girl living with him had gone out to buy something in a kiosk which doubles as the security post and petty trading store used bythe security guard employed to man the streetgate in front of the Megwas’ house.
He said,
“My boys – the twins – were standing on
the veranda watching the goings on on
the street and at the girl walking out of
the house around 10.30pm.
“When the girl got to the guard’s kiosk,
about three boys, who were standing
around the area, started harassing and
groping her. She raised the alarm and I
had to rush downstairs to challenge the
boys, just to make them stop.
“As I rushed downstairs, one of my twin
boys followed me. I opened the gate and
noticed that the boys were still standing
by. I asked them simply why they were
harassing the girl and one of them
challenged me for asking them such
question.
“They started charging towards us,
becoming aggressive, so, I pushed my son
back. As he was trying to move back, he
fell and got up again. At that point, his
brother had come downstairs to ask what
was happening.”
Saturday PUNCH learnt that while this ruckus went on, some of the friends of the three young men came to the scene. Some of them were said to have raced to a nearby bear parlour and picked bottles of beer, which they brought to the scene, ready to do battle with their weapons.
Mr. Megwa told our correspondent that as soon as he saw the men racing out of the street gate in an aggressive manner, he shouted to the street’s gateman to lock the gate, which he failed to do. Unfortunately, the men came back armed with broken bottles.
“As we retreated, they seemed to be
surrounding us and before I knew what
was happening, the girl living with me
screamed. She shouted that Elvis had
been stabbed. At that point, I rushed to
my son, who was already bleeding
heavily from his neck. Lewis was also
stabbed in the shoulder and stomach.
The girl removed her wrapper and used
it to cauterise the gushing blood. I also
removed my singlet and added it to it. I
was just concerned about the welfare of
my children. Even the girl sustained
minor stab injury in her stomach.”
Saturday PUNCH learnt that both Elvis and Lewis were rushed to a nearby hospital where Elvis was pronounced dead.
As of the time of filing this report, Lewis had not been informed that his twin brother was dead.
Elvis
Mr. Megwa dabbed at his eyes as he started
another round of sobbing when he told our
correspondent how Lewis asked everybody
who visited him in his hospital about his twin.
“Everybody keeps telling him that Elvis
is fine and that he would see him soon,”
he said.
It was learnt that Elvis was studying Mass
Communication at the National Open
University.
“The twins are my inspiration. They are
so focused that they always told me not to
worry that through their own businesses,
they would be able to pay their own
school fees. They are very entrepreneurial. The only reason they enrolled at the Open University was to be able to undertake their own business,” the grieving father said.
Saturday PUNCH learnt that the twins were
stabbed by one Alex Onuora, who has since
fled though the police at the Ikotun division
have taken into custody members of his family.
Some other suspects involved in the attack have also been arrested.
The deceased’s family explained that the
security man who failed to lock the gate of the street during the attack had gone into hiding.
They said even though the security rule of the street was that he should have locked the gate by 10pm, he failed to do this, allowing the hoodlums’ incursion into the scene of the attack.
May the gentle soul of Elvis Megwa rest in peace, Amen. And may God give his twin and the rest members of his family the strength to carry on...
