Togolese cook makes u-turn, reveals why he ‘killed’ Credit Switch chairman

Sunday Anani, the Togolese cook who was arrested over
the murder of Ope Bademosi, chairman of Credit Switch Technology,
has reportedly admitted to killing the businessman.

According to a statement issued Sunday by the Lagos state police
command, Anani confessed to killing Bademosi when he (Anani)
sneaked into his room to rob him.

The suspect had earlier said^[1] four
unidentified persons broke into the residence of the deceased on
the day he was killed.

But in the statement issued by Chike Oti, the suspect was quoted
as saying he “stabbed him (the late Bademosi) twice on the
chest” after a failed attempt to rob him.

He was also quoted as saying he escaped from the house upon
hearing a knock, suspecting it may be the deceased’s wife whom he
said had gone out.

Below is the full police statement narrating how the suspect met
late Bademosi and how the murder allegedly occurred.

In keeping with its promise to brief members of the public of
what, why and  how Chief Opeyemi Bademosi, aged 67 years was
killed at his No.3B, Onikoyi Lane, Parkview Estate, Ikoyi,
 Lagos, the Nigeria Police, Lagos State Command hereby gives a
brief of what transpired in the deceased home on Wednesday, October
31, 2018.

The journey that eventually ended the life of one Opeyemi
Bademosi, a business mogul and an Ondo state indigene, began in
Ondo town, in the deceased home state, on 25/10/2018, when one Kofi
Friday, 27, returned from Togo to Nigeria and called his
compatriots including the murder suspect, Sunday Adefonou Anani,
aged 22 years to his house at Yaba area in Ondo town to deliver
messages from home.

When the suspect came to take his message, the said Kofi
Friday who happens to be his cousin, delivered the good news that
he has secured him a job as a cook in a rich man’s house in Ikoyi
Lagos through one Agbeko Ayenahin, a male friend of his. The
suspect was subsequently taken to the deceased house in Ondo state
on Friday October 26, 2018. It is important to mention that
deceased usually went home every last weekend of the month; so on
Sunday, October 28, 2018, he brought the suspect,
  Sunday Adefonou, 22, to Lagos to start work as his
cook.

Three days after, Wednesday, October 31, 2018, the suspect
with the intention to rob the deceased, made his way to his room
through the kitchen, to the lobby and then to the room which was
the scene of crime, when he observed that the woman of the house,
Mrs Ebunola Bademosi, left home for a transaction  in a
neighbourhood bank called Polaris Bank, Falomo branch.

According to the suspect, when he got to the deceased room
and met him on the bed, he said “Chief I am not here to kill you ”
the deceased asked him “what do you want ” and he replied “money ”
The deceased said he had no money in the house. At this point, the
suspect said he tied him up with a cloth and put him on the floor.
He went further to say that the deceased while still on the floor
kicked him causing the knife he tucked inside his pants to fall
off. He added that  the deceased crawled to pick the knife but
he (suspect ) was faster; that he struggled with him and the knife
accidentally pierced the deceased. He said that while exiting the
room, the deceased took the knife to stab him so he kicked him and
he fell down. He then took the knife and stabbed him twice on the
chest which added to three knife stabs.

When he was done killing the man, he entered his bathroom and
threw away his apron already stained with blood and the kitchen
knife used as murder weapon. He thereafter heard a knock on the
kitchen door, sensing it must be the deceased wife, he ran out of
the room and exited from the sitting room door.

He was confronted by the guard at the gate, one Nura Mamudu,
who asked him where he was hurrying to and he replied that “madam
sent me on an errand”

Finding himself in the street, he came across men loading
cement into a Dangote truck. He assisted them and they rewarded him
with a lift to Ondo state and the sum of five hundred Naira
 (N500. 00) given to him by the truck driver in
appreciation.

Investigation into the case revealed the following facts:
that the incident occurred on 31/10/2018, at about 0810hrs;
 

That the suspect committed the offence when the deceased’s
wife, Mrs Ebunola Bademosi  went to Polaris Bank, Falomo
branch, Lagos for a transaction;

That the suspect fled the crime scene when he heard knocks on
the door of the kitchen door to Ondo state for refuge.,

That the deceased’s wife entered the crime scene
 through the sitting room after knocking several times on the
kitchen door without response from the suspect.  

That the deceased’s wife, Ebunola Bademosi reported the
incident to police after she found her husband in a pool of blood
on 31/10/2018;

That the deceased, some minutes before his death, called his
wife, Ebunola Bademosi on phone, complaining that the suspect,
Sunday Adefonou Anani barged into his bedroom uninvited;

That the suspect, Sunday Adefonou Anani, stabbed the deceased
severally on the thoracic region (chest);

That the the scene of crime which is the deceased bedroom,
was scattered and stained with blood;

That after killing the deceased, the suspect stole his
Samsung phone and fled to Ondo state where he was later arrested on
02/11/2018;

That the stolen Samsung phone was recovered from the suspect
upon his arrest in Ondo state;

That the kitchen knife used in killing the deceased was found
inside the deceased’s toilet;

That the suspect’s apron found at the scene of crime was
soaked with blood;  

That the suspect broke down in tears and confessed to the act
after he was confronted with evidence of the CCTV footage;

That the suspect led the investigation team to the crime
scene demonstrating/reconstructing how he carried out the
crime;

That, samples recovered from the scene of the incident have
been handed over to Forensic and DNA Department of Ministry of
Justice for examination and analysis;

That the autopsy report attributed the cause of death to (a)
Bilateral Haemothorax  (b) Laceration of the lung and
intercostal vessels and (c) Multiple sharp force trauma to the
chest;

That the suspects Kofi Friday, Agbeko Ayenahin, Salisu
Hussein and Nura Mamudu are not linked to the crime.

In conclusion therefore, investigation has established a
prima facie case of armed robbery/murder of one Opeyemi Bademosi,
male, aged 67 years against Sunday Adefonou Anani, male, 22 years.
It is evident that the suspect single handedly committed the crime
by stabbing Mr Opeyemi Bademosi to death with a kitchen knife with
intent to steal from him. To this end, the suspect will be
arrainged in court while the other suspects who are not linked to
the crime will be released to reliable sureties.

The Commissioner of Police Lagos State, CP Edgal Imohimi has
directed that the casefile be duplicated and forwarded to the
office of the Directorate of Public Prosecution (DPP) for vetting
and legal advice. He thanks Lagosians for keeping faith with the
police and for their patience throughout the duration of the murder
investigation which took the Command a record two days to unravel
and apprehend the author of the crime, Sunday Adefonou Anani. He
enthused that criminal investigation has gone beyond the era of
rule of thumb to an era scientific and research based investigation
in Lagos state Police Command.

CSP Chike Oti

Police Public Relations Officer, Lagos State.