Why I Was Forced To Murder Chief Bademosi—Togolese Cook

The Togolese cook accused of killing Managing Director of Credit Switch Technology, Chief Opeyemi Bademosi has narrated how he carried out the act.

According to the Lagos Command of the Nigeria Police Force, the suspect, Sunday Adefonou Anani, allegedly murder the businessman at his residence for money.

In a statement by its Public Relations Officer, Chike Oti, the Lagos Police Command disclosed that the accused told investigators that when Chief Bademosi failed to give him money, he had to stab him in the chest three times, leading to his death.

The deceased, aged 67 years, lived on No.3B, Onikoyi Lane, Parkview Estate, Ikoyi, Lagos and was murdered on Wednesday, October 31, 2018.

The police narrated that on October 25, 2018, 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.

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.

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The suspect was subsequently taken to the deceased house in Ondo state on Friday October 26, 2018. It was state that the 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, 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.

According to the suspect, when he got to the deceased room and met him on the bed, he said “Chief I am not here to kill you” the deceased asked him “what do you want ” and he replied “money ” 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.

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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.

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 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 N500 given to him by the truck driver in appreciation.

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According to the police, investigation has 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 said the suspect singlehandedly committed the crime by stabbing Opeyemi Bademosi to death with a kitchen knife with intent to steal from him.

The police said the suspect will be arraigned in court while the other suspects who are not linked to the crime will be released to reliable sureties.

Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police Lagos State, Edgal Imohimi, has directed that the case file 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,” the statement by the police yesterday said.

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