Two of the three domestic staff of a caterer, Mrs. Olakunbi Adene, who was murdered in Akure, the Ondo State capital, last week, have confessed to killing the woman after their arrest.
It was gathered that the two arrested suspects were apprehended in Akure and Idanre after detectives from the Ondo State Police Command tracked the woman’s two Android phones to them.
According to a police source, the driver of the deceased ran away after his wife answered a call from the late woman’s phone.
The source said three people were involved in the killing and confessed to murdering the caterer after she prepared a delicious meal for them to celebrate her 54th birthday.
The source said, “They explained that they went to the woman’s house, where she cooked for them on that fateful Thursday. After eating the delicious food, they descended on her and killed her.”
According to the suspects, “We strangled her and cut her head with a cutlass, despite her begging us to spare her life.”
The suspects said the deafening noise from the generator prevented the neighbors from knowing what was happening while they kept stabbing her. They also revealed that her stomach was ripped open, with her intestines exposed.
The suspects, however, said they tried to set the house on fire to make it look like a fire incident, but the gas cylinder they emptied failed to ignite.
“They covered the body with rubber materials, intending to burn the entire house so that people would think it was caused by a gas explosion from the kitchen,” the suspects added.
“The gas cylinder eventually exploded as they had planned, and the woman was burnt. They then took the deceased’s ATM cards and two Android phones and fled the scene.”
The woman’s younger brother, Adebola Oyeneye, said, “I was the one who took the body to the mortuary; they burnt part of her stomach.”
Why we killed her — Personal Assistant
Personal Assistant to the late Mrs Debbie Olakunbi Adene has reportedly confessed why he and his boss’s driver killed the popular entrepreneur few days after her birthday.
Police sources revealed that the pair murdered the 54-year-old woman because they wanted the money that was sprayed on her during her birthday celebrations.
Reports said the PA, name withheld, was arrested by police detectives after the victim was gruesomely killed in her house located at Oda Road, Akure, capital of Ondo State, after her body was discovered on her bed by her neighbours who informed the caretaker of the house.
The mother of two was said to have entertained visitors at her residence and served assorted wine and drinks before posting many of her pictures on social media.
After her husband, Dele Adene, expressed concern over the delay in the arrest of the killer, a police source said the deceased’s PA confessed to killing her.
Adene, in an interview, had said: “I was told that my wife’s corpse was found on her bed in a pool of blood, showing she was hacked to death. I cannot believe that no arrests have been made up till the moment of talking to you. I feel the suspects should have been arrested. Her phone should be tracked. I don’t know how dwellers in the building did not know such thing happened in a house with four flats apartment.”
However, the police detective, who spoke to Sunday Vanguard, said the PA was also providing the police with useful information about the circumstances surrounding the killing.
It was also gathered that the late caterer’s driver, who is on the run, provided the weapon used to hack her to death.
Efforts to contact the state police image maker, Funmi Odunlami, proved abortive as she failed to pick her calls, but a police officer confirmed that one suspect has been arrested in respect of the murder.
Vanguard Newspaper
