The Lagos State Police Command has narrated how 67 -year-old businessman and Chairman of Credit Switch Technology, Chief Opeyemi Bademosi, was killed by his 22-year-old Togolese cook, Sunday Adefonou Anani.
\nA statement by the Lagos Police spokesman, Chike Oti, showed that the murder suspect allegedly stabbed late Bademosi on the chest three times on the last day of October, before taking off to Ondo, where the businessman hired him from. He was arrested by the Police two days later.
\nThe Police statement reads
\n\u201cIn keeping with its promise to brief members of the public of what, why and how Chief Opeyemi Bademosi, aged 67 years,Chief\u00a0Opeyemi Bademosi, Onikoyi Lane, Parkview Estate, Ikoyi, Lagos, the Lagos State Police Command hereby\u00a0gives\u00a0a brief of what transpired in the deceased home on Wednesday, October 31, 2018.
\nThe journey that eventually ended the life of one Opeyemi Bademosi, a business mogul and an Ondo state indigene, began in Ondo town, in the deceased home state, on 25\/10\/2018, when one Kofi Friday, 27, returned from Togo to Nigeria and called his compatriots including the murder suspect, Sunday Adefonou Anani, aged 22 years to his house at Yaba area in Ondo town to deliver messages from home.
\nWhen the suspect came to take his message, he said Kofi Friday who happens to be his cousin, delivered the good news that he has secured him a job as a cook in a rich man\u2019s house in Ikoyi Lagos through one Agbeko Ayenahin, a male friend of his.
\nThe suspect was subsequently taken to the deceased house in Ondo state on\u00a0Friday\u00a0October 26, 2018. It is important to mention that deceased usually went home every last weekend of the month; so on Sunday, October 28, 2018, he brought the suspect, Sunday Adefonou, 22, to Lagos to start work as his cook.
\nThree days after, Wednesday, October 31, 2018, the suspect with the intention to rob the deceased, made his way to his room through the kitchen, to the lobby and then to the room which was the scene of crime, when he observed that the woman of the house, Mrs Ebunola Bademosi, left home for a transaction in a neighbourhood bank called Polaris Bank, Falomo branch.
\nAccording to the suspect, when he got to the deceased room and met him on the bed, he\u00a0said\u00a0\u201cChief I am not here to kill you \u201d the deceased asked him \u201cwhat do you want \u201d and he replied \u201cmoney \u201d The deceased said he had no money in the house. At this point, the suspect said he tied him up with a cloth and put him on the floor. He went further to say that the deceased while still on the floor kicked him causing the knife he tucked inside his pants to fall off. He added that the deceased crawled to pick the knife but he (suspect ) was faster; that he struggled with him and the knife accidentally pierced the deceased. He said that while exiting the room, the deceased took the knife to stab him so he kicked him and he fell down. He then took the knife and stabbed him twice on the chest which added to three knife stabs.
\nWhen he was done killing the man, he entered his bathroom and threw away his apron already stained with blood and the kitchen knife used as\u00a0murderweapon. He thereafter heard a knock on the kitchen door, sensing it must be the deceased wife, he ran out of the room and exited from the sitting room door.
\nHe was confronted by the guard at the gate, one Nura Mamudu, who asked him where he was hurrying to and he replied that \u201cmadam sent me on an errand\u201d
\nFinding himself in the street, he came across men loading cement into a Dangote truck. He assisted them and they rewarded him with a lift to Ondo state and the sum of five hundred Naira (N500. 00) given to him by the truck driver in appreciation.
\nInvestigation\u00a0into the case revealed the following facts: that the incident occurred on 31\/10\/2018, at about 0810hrs;
\nThat the suspect committed the offence when the deceased\u2019s wife, Mrs Ebunola Bademosi went to Polaris Bank, Falomo branch, Lagos for a transaction;
\nThat the suspect fled the crime scene when he heard knocks on the door of the kitchen door to Ondo state for refuge.,
\nThat the deceased\u2019s wife entered the crime scene through the sitting room after knocking several times on the kitchen door without a response from the suspect.
\nThat the deceased\u2019s wife, Ebunola Bademosi reported the incident to police after she found her husband in a pool of blood on 31\/10\/2018;
\nThat the deceased, some minutes before his death, called his wife, Ebunola Bademosi on phone, complaining that the suspect, Sunday Adefonou Anani barged into his bedroom uninvited;
\nThat the suspect, Sunday Adefonou Anani, stabbed the deceased severally on the thoracic region (chest);
\nThat the scene of the crime which is the deceased bedroom was scattered and stained with blood;
\nThat after killing the deceased, the suspect stole his Samsung phone and fled to Ondo state where he was later arrested on 02\/11\/2018;
\nThat the stolen Samsung phone was recovered from the suspect upon his arrest in Ondo state;
\nThat the kitchen knife used in killing the deceased was found inside the deceased\u2019s toilet;
\nThat the suspect\u2019s apron found at the scene of\u00a0crime\u00a0was soaked with blood;
\nThat the suspect broke down in tears and confessed to the act after he was confronted with evidence of the CCTV footage;
\nThat the suspect led the investigation team to the crime scene demonstrating\/reconstructing how he carried out the crime;
\nThat, samples recovered from the scene of the incident have been handed over to\u00a0Forensic\u00a0and DNA Department of Ministry of Justice for examination and analysis;
\nThat the autopsy report attributed the cause of death to (a) Bilateral Haemothorax (b) Laceration of the lung and intercostal vessels and (c) Multiple sharp force trauma to the chest;
\nThat the suspects Kofi Friday, Agbeko Ayenahin, Salisu Hussein and Nura Mamudu are not linked to the crime.
\nIn conclusion, therefore,\u00a0investigationhas established a prima facie case of armed robbery\/murder of one Opeyemi Bademosi, male, aged 67 years against Sunday Adefonou Anani, male, 22 years. It is evident that the suspect single-handedly committed the crime by stabbing Mr Opeyemi Bademosi to death with a kitchen knife with intent to steal from him.
\nTo this end, the suspect will be arraigned in court while the other suspects who are not linked to the crime will be released to reliable sureties.
\nThe Commissioner of Police Lagos State, CP\u00a0Edgal\u00a0Imohimi has directed that the case file\u00a0be\u00a0duplicated and forwarded to the office of the Directorate of Public Prosecution (DPP) for vetting and legal advice.
\n\u201cHe thanks Lagosians for keeping faith with the police and for their patience throughout the duration of the murder investigation which took the Command a record two days to unravel and apprehend the author of the crime, Sunday Adefonou Anani.
\n\u201cHe enthused that criminal investigation has gone beyond the era of rule of thumb to an era scientific and research-based investigation in Lagos State Police Command.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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