Togolese cook who killed Ope Bademosi arrested

The Ondo State Police Command has arrested the cook who killed his boss, Chief Ope Bademosi, in Lagos.




The cook, who was identified as Sunday, was said to have committed
the offence at the Lagos home of the deceased. He was alleged to have
run away after the dastardly act.


The police thereafter declared him wanted.




The State Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Femi Joseph, confirmed
the arrest and said the suspect would be paraded today at the
headquarters of the command.




Bademosi was murdered early on Wednesday, at his Onikoyi Lane, Parkview Estate.



A neighbour of the deceased, who didn’t want to be named said, “I heard a
scream from the wife, so I ran outside to their flat and saw her
screaming outside with people holding her as she said that her husband
had been murdered. When we got inside, we saw the man in a pool of blood
with the volume of music increased to the highest level.





“Already we had called the attention of the estate police before
going in and they arrived just on time. According to the wife, she said
she left her husband very early this morning to do some transactions in
the bank. On her way back, she called her husband and couldn’t hear what
he was saying as his words were barely cohesive, and was just muttering
words before the call dropped.




“She attempted to call him back but he wasn’t picking up his phone.
On getting home, the security was still asleep and couldn’t even respond
to her car horns till she got down from her car, to bang on the
security’s window; that was when the security eventually woke up to open
the gate for her. But unfortunately, on entering, she met her husband
lying in a pool of his own blood and couldn’t find the cook who just
resumed work on Sunday anywhere.




“That was when she screamed out for help and sent the security to
help her run to see if he can still apprehend the cook. Perhaps because
of fear, the security who was just employed on Sunday as well, also took
to his heels upon the news that his new boss had been murdered.”




A former security guard at the apartment, who pleaded not to be named, spoke with THISDAY.




He said he was sacked from his job after working for just a month
with no reasons given to him and was paid off by the deceased on the eve
of the incident.




He said his sack may not be unconnected with the security measures he
took to ensure that proper records of visitors to the apartment were
kept. He said prior to his employment, there were no records of visitors
to the apartment.




“I just returned from police questioning. I was the one guiding that
house before. That oga is a very nice man. When I resumed work, I
realised that there wasn’t a manifest where security can keep record of
any visitor that comes around. So I developed that,” he said, adding
that he realised that immediately he started doing that, he began to
have problem in the house, consequently leading to his sack.




He said it was on Sunday, “I realised that they have employed new
cook and security man when I went there to carry my fan. And yesterday
(Tuesday) evening, Oga (the deceased) called me to come and collect my
salary, which I went and I saw him. He was hale and hearty.”



The Divisional Police Officer of Ikoyi Division, Ikoyi-Lagos, SP
Mustapha Tijani, in a brief chat with THISDAY, said an official
statement would be issued by the police as soon as they were done with
the investigation, “but right now, efforts have been intensified towards
tracking down the cook who is at large.




Before leaving the venue, the newly employed security man, came back
to the crime scene, accompanied by his guarantor for the job. Both of
them were later whisked away by some police officers.

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