The police in Ogun State have paraded the suspected killers of former Central Bank of Nigeria staff, Kehinde Fatinoye, his wife, Bukola Fatinoye, and their only son, Oreoluwa Fatinoye.
The suspects were paraded on Friday, February 10, 2023, at the Ogun State Police Headquarters, Eleweran, Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital.
During the parade, the Ogun State Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, disclosed that the driver of the deceased, Lekan Adekanbi, had confessed to having hired the other two men to help him in collecting money from his boss.
He said when they were with the victims, they had demanded a cash transfer and on receiving the alert, the suspects knew they could be tracked and decided to kill the couple.
According to Oyeyemi, the driver, who on January 2 escaped from police custody, was traced to his elder brother in Iseyin, Oyo State, but he had left the place before the arrival of the police.
The police teams, he explained, further intensified efforts and Adekanbi was apprehended in his hideout somewhere in Abeokuta on January 21.
During interrogation, Adekanbi, who had been driving the victims since 2018, “confessed to being the mastermind of the dastardly act.”
Oyeyemi said: “He invited the other two suspects Ahmed Odetola (aka Akamo) and Waheed Adeniyi (aka Koffi) to join him to rob the couple.
“He confessed further that he took the step because the couple refused to increase his salary, and that he approached them for a loan to buy a motorcycle, but they didn’t oblige him.”
He had told the police that he and his ‘hired killers’ waited for the couple to return from the New Year Crossover Service because he had access to the house, saying they “pounced on them immediately they entered the house.”
He added that the Alsatian dog in the house did not attack him because the dog was very familiar with him being the person who used to feed it.
How We Lure Our Victims To Construction Sites Before Killing Them – Law Graduate
Williams Abiodun, a 2007 Law graduate of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Osun State, on Wednesday, January 25, 2023, narrated how they disguise as site workers to lure drivers to a site, where they dispossessed them of their vehicles, kill and sell their vehicles to Chinese companies in Benin City, Edo State.
The 39-year-old Abiodun, who hailed from Ondo State, made the revelation while being paraded alongside 10 other suspected criminals by the Edo State Police Commissioner, Muhammed Dankwara, at the headquarters of the state Police Command, Benin City.
He said: “What we do is that we disguise as site workers going to the site, then we call the drivers to take us to the site. When we get to the site, we will collect their cars, kill them with blocks and sell their cars.
“We killed the first one, collected his car and I sold it to the Chinese company. The second one was a Keke. We also sold it, but the last one was the one that the police arrested us for. We are yet to sell the Sienna car before we were arrested.”
Collaborating the report, Akin Amadin, a member of the gang, said he met Williams Abiodun in Auchi and he told him about the business.
“Abiodun told me that my job is to be watching out to see who is coming. For the first one we did, he gave me N35,000. The second one, I got N55,000 and the last one was the Seinna car, but we could not sell it before the police caught us. We killed the three persons,” he said
The gang is made up of Williams Abiodun, 39; Emmanuel Joseph, 30; Akin Amadin, 29, and the fourth person who is now at large.
Edo State Commissioner of Police, Mohammed Dankwara, while briefing newsmen during the parade, said the Police recovered N1.2 million, sophisticated arms and ammunition, while 135 suspects have been arrested since his assumption of office in Edo State.
He, however, warned criminal elements in the state to call it to quit or move out of the state or else have themselves to blame.
Dankwara said the investigation shows that the arrest of some of the criminals had made the crime rate in the state go down, which implied that those in custody have always been key partakers in crime.
Among the items recovered items are AK-47 rifles, locally made guns, pistols, 10 vehicles, 130 gas cylinders, two motorcycles, and N1,200,000 cash.
Source: Daily Post
