JUST IN: Ondo police arrest cook who killed Ope Bademosi

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.

Murder suspect, Sunday. Police
photo

“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.