Corpses of two persons believed to be friends in Inisa, Osun State, were on Friday recovered from a dilapidated building after they reportedly stabbed themselves to death following a bloody fight.

The two deceased were identified as Alli Baba, a Ghanaian, said to be a palm wine tapper, and his friend, Kayode Olete.

Although the cause of the fight between the two men was said to be unknown yet, residents close to the house where the two dead bodies were recovered, told our correspondent that loud noises were heard which suggested that the two had a serious fight.

A resident of Inisa who gave his name as Jamiu, revealed that dangerous weapons were likely used in the fight between the two friends, as their intestines were exposed when security agents recovered their bodies on Friday.

Jamiu disclosed, “My house is in the same Baale Okunoye compound where Alli Baba was living. We all heard a loud noise from the house around 9:00 pm on Thursday when the two of them were fighting each other.

“We could not even come to the scene when we heard the noise, because it was late in the evening. When security men came around this morning, they met the two of them dead. They stabbed each other to death, but I can’t say the cause of the fight.”

When contacted, the Public Relations Officer of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Osun State Command, Kehinde Adeleke, confirmed the incident.

She said, “Thursday evening around 21:05 hour, we got a report that two people were fighting at Baale Okunoye Compound, Inisa. One Ali Baba, 60+, male (a Ghanaian by origin and palm wine tapper by profession) and one Kayode Olete, 52, male.

“The two of them were said to be close friends. Nobody knows what led to their fight as the house where the incident happened is isolated and dilapidated. Passersby later saw them in a pool of blood as they had stabbed and macheted themselves with their intestines popping out.

“Our officers immediately contacted the chairman of the LCDA and the elders of the community. When we got to the scene this morning, it was discovered that the two of them had passed on. The families of the two victims were contacted and they gave their consent for them to be buried.”

Meanwhile, a commercial driver plying the Edo/Osun State route, Olalekan Amos, has been arrested by the police for fleeing with electronic gadgets worth N4.5 million he was meant to deliver in Osogbo.

The spokesman for the Command, Yemisi Opalola, in a statement on Friday noted that the suspect, after collecting the electronics from Edo State, sometime in March, refused to deliver the gadgets as agreed at the designated place in Osogbo and fled with the amplifiers.

Opalola said, “Upon the report, the police Anti-cultism Unit who have been on the trail of the suspect, on 4/7/2024 arrested him. He confessed to having sold the said three amplifiers worth N1.5 million each to someone at the rate of N25,000.”