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How I murdered my boss – Togolese Cook

How I murdered my boss - Togolese Cook

Sunday Adefonou Anani, the suspect that murdered a business mogul, Chief Opeyemi Bademosi in Lagos has told how he carried out the mission.

 

How I murdered my boss - Togolese Cook

Bademosi, an Ondo chief was murdered in his resident at number 3B, Onikoye Lane Park view Estate , Ikoyi by his newly employed cook from the Republic of Benin.

According to the suspect, he wanted to rob his boss, but things did not work out how he planned ; ” On the fateful day , when I got to my boss’ room and met him on the bed, I told him, Chief I am not here to kill you and he asked what did I want and I said money, he replied “money ” but said he had no money in the house. At this point, I tied him up with a cloth and put him on the floor “.

The suspect 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 in the chest which added to three knife stabs.

When 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 a murder weapon. 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.

He was confronted by the guard at the gate, one Nura Mamudu, who asked him where he was hurrying to and he replied that “madam sent me on an errand”

Finding 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.

Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) CSP Chike Oti said : ” Investigation into the case revealed the following facts: that the incident occurred on August 31 , at about 0810hrs; That the suspect committed the offence when the deceased’s wife, Mrs. Ebunola Bademosi went to Polaris Bank, Falomo branch, Lagos for a transaction; That the suspect fled the crime scene when he heard knocks on the door to Ondo state for refuge.,That the deceased’s wife entered the crime scene through the sitting room after knocking several times on the kitchen door without response from the suspect. That the deceased’s wife, Ebunola Bademosi reported the incident to police after she found her husband in a pool of blood .

” In keeping with its promise to brief members of the public of what, why and how Chief Opeyemi Bademosi, 67 , was killed , the Nigeria Police, Lagos State Command hereby gives a brief of what transpired in the deceased home .
” The journey that eventually ended the life of one Opeyemi Bademosi, a business mogul and an Ondo state indigine, began in Ondo town, in the deceased home state, on October 25 , when one Kofi Friday, 27, returned from Togo to Nigeria and called his compatriots including the murder suspect, Sunday Adefonou Anani, 22 to his house at Yaba area in Ondo town to deliver messages from home.

” When the suspect came to take his message, the 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’s house in Ikoyi Lagos through one Agbeko Ayenahin, a male friend of his. The suspect was subsequently taken to the deceased house in Ondo state on Friday, October 26,. 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.

” Three days after, Wednesday, October 31, 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 at Polaris Bank, Falomo branch.

” That the deceased’s wife, Ebunola Bademosi reported the incident to police after she found her husband in a pool of blood . That 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; That the suspect, Sunday Adefonou Anani, stabbed the deceased severally on the thoracic region (chest);

That the the scene of the crime which is the deceased bedroom, was scattered and stained with blood;
That after killing the deceased, the suspect stole his Samsung phone and fled to Ondo state where he was later arrested on November 2.
” That the stolen Samsung phone was recovered from the suspect upon his arrest in Ondo state . That the kitchen knife used in killing the deceased was found inside the deceased’s toilet . That the suspect’s apron found at the scene of the crime was soaked with blood;

That the suspect broke down in tears and confessed to the act after he was confronted with evidence of the CCTV footage. That the suspect led the investigation team to the crime scene demonstrating/reconstructing how he carried out the crime.

That, samples recovered from the scene of the incident have been handed over to the Forensic and DNA Department of Ministry of Justice for examination and analysis;

That 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 .That the suspects Kofi Friday, Agbeko Ayenahin, Salisu Hussein and Nura Mamudu are not linked to the crime.

” In conclusion therefore, the investigation has established a prima facie case of armed robbery/murder of one Opeyemi Bademosi, male,67 against Sunday Adefonou Anani, male, 22 . It is evident that the suspect single handedly committed the crime by stabbing Mr.Bademosi to death with a kitchen knife with intent to steal from him. To this end, the suspect will be arrainged in court while the other suspects who are not linked to the crime will be released to reliable sureties.

” The Commissioner of Police Lagos State, CP Edgal Imohimi has directed that the casefile be duplicated and forwarded to the office of the Directorate of Public Prosecution (DPP) for vetting and legal advice. He 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. He 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”.

He said during interrogation, the suspect was availed the services of a French speaking lawyer from the Office of the Public Defender (OPD), who was with him throughout the duration of the investigation.

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