Suspected killer of Bademosi arrested in Ondo

The suspect, Sunday Afobale, who was arrested in Ondo town,  headquarters of Ondo West Local Government Area of the state, was the cook of the deceased at his Park View residence in Ikoyi, Lagos State.

The 22-year-old suspect who killed his boss some three days after he was brought from Ondo to Lagos was arrested with two other suspects and paraded by the state police command.

Speaking on his arrest, the state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) Mr Femi Joseph, disclosed that detectives from Ondo town were able to track him and two other suspects in Ondo.

He explained that the suspect,  who is a Togolese, has made some confessional statement about the incident and promised to inform the general public about what transpires and how the young man killed the septuagenarian.

Joseph said “It would be recalled that three days ago, the Togolese cook of Chief Ope Bademosi reportedly stabbed his boss to death and ran away and since then police has declared him wanted.

“But fortunately for us today DPO Fagun, Ondo town, SP Olajide Samuel and his team were able to track and arrested the suspect along with two other suspects in Ondo town,

“He is in our custody and has been giving us useful information but because the case happened in Lagos state, the state police command has handed him over back to our men in Lagos state where the incident happened.

“We will not want to talk too much about the suspect for now because he’s still giving us useful information in order not to jeopardise our investigation on the case, he has said many things that would be helpful for us, we still want to remain silent on the information

“He has been giving us some information and as soon as we completed our investigation here in Ondo state and Lagos state police command, we shall surely let the whole Nigeria know what really transpires and how the badly incident took place.

“We have done the major aspect of the job by arresting him, so whatever happens later we will let you people know.”