Four years after Lagos sound engineer David Imoh — “Dave Sound” — was lynched and burnt alive over a disputed N100 balance, his widow Bolu has revealed the family was weeks away from relocating to Canada when a mob destroyed their lives forever, as three of six convicts received death sentences.
They had a plan. Canada. A new life. A fresh start. A mob took all of it away over N100.
More than four years after Lagos sound engineer David Sunday Imoh — known professionally as “Dave Sound” — was lynched and set ablaze by a mob over a disputed bus fare balance, a Lagos State High Court has sentenced three of the six convicts to death by hanging. Justice I.O. Harrison delivered the verdict in dramatic scenes that saw one condemned convict reportedly attempt suicide by slitting his wrist and throat with a razor blade in the courtroom — only to be rushed out by prison officials for emergency treatment.
For Bolu Imoh, the verdict brought no real closure. Speaking exclusively to SaharaReporters on Tuesday night, David’s widow opened a window into the life they had built — and the future that was violently stolen.
“I fondly called him Timmy,” she said softly. “He’s the father that anyone would wish to have. He’s the husband every woman would fight to have in her life.”
She described a man whose instinct, even under provocation, was to smile rather than fight back.
“David was always a peaceful person throughout his life. Nothing you did to him could keep him angry. He would rather laugh over any quarrel you were having with him,” Bolu recalled. “He had this smile that would make you wonder. You could be fighting with him and he would still be smiling.”
He was, she said, a man of relentless resourcefulness — her electrician, mechanic, carpenter and welder all in one.
“Anything legal David could do to provide for us, he would do,” she said. “Tell me any legal job David would not do. He was a man of many trades and he mastered them all.”
His reliability made him everyone’s first call in a crisis. “Whenever anything happened, the first person people wanted to call was David. That’s how dependable he was.”
And just months before the mob caught up with him — the family had finalised plans to relocate to Canada.
A N100 dispute ended it all.
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