A couple, James Olaosebikan, 72, and Esther Olaosebikan, 68, have been killed by a gang of armed robbers in their home at KM 54, Lagos-Ibadan expressway, Sagamu, Ogun State.
Three persons have been arrested by the Police in connection with the murder at dawn. One of the suspects claimed that they were not assassins, but armed robbers.
The suspect said they killed the couple because they recognised one of their gang members :
” We have to kill them because they would report us to the police. We were invited by a member who is now on the run”.
The couple was reportedly murdered on June 30, while their suspected killers were arrested on July 12.
The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said the police have arrested four suspects in connection with the murder. The arrested suspects include Uthman, Abdulkareem and Abdulhamid.
Oyeyemi said the assailants accessed the house through the ceiling and used machetes to kill the couple. The PPRO further said the suspects confessed to the police that they were members of an armed robbery gang; and that they decided to kill the couple after they recognised one of them.
He said: “Upon the report, the Commissioner of Police, CP Bashir Makama, instructed the DPO of Sagamu Division, SP Okiki Agunbiade, to fish out the killers within the shortest possible time.
“In compliance with the CP’s directive, the DPO and his men embarked on technical and forensic investigation of the case and their efforts yielded a positive result on July 12, when three members of the gang were apprehended.
“On interrogation, they confessed to being part of a robbery gang and that one of their members, who is now at large, invited them for the purpose of robbing the deceased as well as a nearby shop. But on getting to the house, they discovered that the couple recognized one of them, hence, the decision to kill them.”
