How Credit Switch Technology Chairman, Chief Ope Bademosi Was Murdered By His Newly Hired Togolese Cook
Residents of Onikoyi Lane, Parkview Estate, Ikoyi, Lagos; were in the early hours of Wednesday, thrown into mourning at the news of the death of the chairman of Ondo Development Committee (ODC), the Lotin 111 of Ondo Kingdom and the chairman of Credit Switch Technology, Chief Ope Bademosi, 67.
He was allegedly murdered by his Togolese cook identified as Sunday.
According to ThisDay, one of the neighbour’s of the deceased dad-of-4 who pleaded anonymity recounted how the murder was discovered.
Read below:
“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”.
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In an interview with the Nigerian Police Force Homicide Investigation Team officer who claimed he was the first to enter the apartment after the crime had been committed but who also chose to be anonymous, he said:
“This is very wicked. In fact, that guy must be a devil itself. He stabbed the man in multiple places. I was the first to enter the apartment. In fact, the music was so loud that even if you were to be killing 20 people here, no one would hear them scream. I was the one that put off the sound upon entering.
After committing the act, the guy went to the toilet and pulled off the white uniform meant for cooks he was wearing because it was all stained with blood. He also left the knife he used inside the toilet there. If you see the knife, it’s a very strong, long and sharp knife that could only be authorized for military personnel. Afterward, he ransacked the whole apartment and carted away all valuables he could lay his hands on including an unaccountable sum of money, jewelries and the deceased phone.”
“What baffles us more is that, no one seems to know anything about him because he was only employed few days ago and brought from Ondo state to resume just this last Sunday. And they only know him by his first name, which is Sunday. Again, we went through his things and found some old pictures of him putting on a camouflage belonging to republic of Benin military. Also he was in a group picture with all of them wearing Benin Republic military uniform, which suggests that he could be an ex-service man in Benin Republic.”
The deceased former security guard also spoke with THISDAY. He said he was sacked from his job after working for just a month with no reasons given to him and he 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 was 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 further that it was on Sunday when he went to retrieve his fan that he realised a new cook and a new security man have been employed, He said the deceased called him to come for his salary the day before he was murdered which he obeyed. He confirmed that he got his salary on Tuesday as promised and that the deceased was hale and hearty when he got to his house.
Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of Ikoyi Division, Ikoyi-Lagos; SP Mustapha Tijani said an official statement would be issued by the police as soon as they were done with investigation, “but right now, efforts have been intensified towards tracking down the cook who is at large.”
The newly employed security man was reported to have returned to the crime scene, accompanied by his guarantor for the job and both of them were later taken away by some police officers.
CREDIT: ThisDay