The suspects who are
workers to former Vice Chancellor of Federal University of Technology, Akure,
FUTA, Professor Albert Ilemobade, including the night guard, Daniel Ita, 24,
and driver Olayemi Bamitale, 36, were arrested at Ondo State Police headquarters,
police said they were on the trail of other accomplices.
The arrest of the suspects came as the 73-year-old wife of the deceased made a wish to the state police Commissioner, Isaac Eke, to allow her have a five minutes chat with the killers of her husband.
The arrest of the suspects came as the 73-year-old wife of the deceased made a wish to the state police Commissioner, Isaac Eke, to allow her have a five minutes chat with the killers of her husband.
The suspects confessed that
the late 78-year-old Professor of Veterinary Medicine was nice to them, but
that they had to kill him because they needed “good money to survive,” by
stealing the RAV 4 SUV.
Bamitale said he was sacked
after he had earlier stolen the car and attempted to ýsell it, but could not do
so because the car had a tracker.
The suspect said he came
back after he was released from police detention on the order of the deceased.
He said the detention annoyed him, so he connived with the guard to finish what
he started.
He said he had to kill the
professor to avoid failure for the second time.
The suspect said their plan
was to flee to a neighbouring country after successfully selling off the car.
Meanwhile, Vanguard
gathered from a top police chief that three other suspects were reportedly in
police custody, but were not paraded alongside the two killers.
The other suspects
include a herbalist, Dr. Okon, the housemaid and the woman who helped the
deceased to recruit the night guard and driver.
‘I jumped on his chest
several times’
Giving graphic details of
how the heinous crime was hatched, Bamitale said the plan to kill their master
was perfected on a Saturday, while the killing was carried out on Sunday night.
He said: “After I was
released from detention on the order of my master, I went back to make plan
another plan. I asked Daniel the guard if he wants to make good money and he
said yes. So I informed him of my new plan.
“Daniel was the one giving
me information about what is happening in the house after I was sacked. He even
paid for my transportation to Akure, because I have not been working since I
was sent away.
“Daniel lured out Baba
(late professor) by telling him that there was an electrical spark in the house
after I had stationed myself near the kitchen entrance.
“Immediately Baba came out, I strangulated,
while Daniel put cloth in his mouth to stop him from shouting.
“After a few minutes, Baba
was still struggling. I then jumped on his chest several times and he died. We
dragged him into the generator house and locked him inside the store that
Sunday night.
“We left the house and
locked the gate outside so that no one will suspect us. We went inside his
bedroom and took the car key and some other items such as i-Pad, two phones,
laptop, two bags and N7,000, which we used to fuel the car.
“We left Akure and headed
to Lagos. We left with those items so that the car will not be tracked again
because Baba used these gadgets to activate the tracking.”
He said they were stopped by some policemen at
the entrance of Ijapo Estate, adding that the cops recognised Daniel as the
security man to the deceased and were asked to go without further questioning.
Bamitale said they
encountered some challenges after the men of the Federal Road Safety Corps,
FRSC, booked them for invalid vehicle particulars and they had to sell the
phones and i-Pad for N3,000 to pay for the release of the vehicle.
“We sold off the phones and
laptops after being booked by FRSC officials. We sold the phones to retrieve
the car from them before heading to Ijebu Ode with the hope of selling the
car.”
‘Herbalist warned us
against killing him’
Corroborating the driver,
Daniel said he had earlier visited a herbalist, who warned against the killing
of their boss but said Bamitale insisted that the man must be killed if they
really wanted to make money without being caught by the police.
Daniel said Bamitale told
him that if the professor was not killed, he would track the car again because
he was unable to sell the car in his first attempt because the car was tracked
and he had to return it.
Speaking before parading
the suspects, the Police Commissioner, Isaac Eke, said the killers were
arrested while trying to sell the car at Iloti, Ogun State, to a buyer who
became suspicious because of the ridiculous price tag they put on the SUV.
He said the buyer later
alerted police, who rounded up the suspects where they were lodged.
Eke said the suspects were
arrested with the car, marked GGE589 CF, and brought down to Ondo State Police
Command.
He also disclosed that
relatives of the deceased had identified the corpse and deposited it in the morgue.
He assured the public that
the suspects and their accomplices would l be brought to book.
“They will be charged to
court for murder, not kidnapping,” he said.
Adeseni Ilemobade, who is
the last child, said all they wanted was justice. Adeseni asked the killers
what their motive was despite all the family had done for them.
Death sentence is the right punishment an innocent man in his house. May god punish them.
ReplyDeleteOmase o too bad
ReplyDeleteSome pple are callous just cos of the love of money they ended the poor man's life. God shall comfort his family
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