Afimag.com –
Ogun State Police Command on February 10, 2023, interrogated the suspected killers of Kehinde and Bukola Fatinoye (a couple) who was murdered at the early hours of January 01, 2023.
The suspects; Lekan Adekanbi a.k.a Koroba; Ahmed Odetola a.k.a Akamo and Waheed Adeniji a.k.a Koffi were all arrested by police operatives after a tip-off based investigation embarked upon by the command before they were eventually apprehended at Ogere, in the Ikenne Local Government Area of the state on February 09, 2023.
Kehinde was a staff of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and his wife, Bukola Fatinoye, was a Principal Secretary at the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB). They were slained alongside their only son, Oreoluwa in the most gruesome manner on the fateful day and the suspects also set their corpses ablaze in order to cover their evil deed.
The prime suspect, Lekan who confessed to the crime, said he arranged for the murder of the couple because they declined to increase his monthly salary and their refusal of a loan application he had requested for to enable him purchase a motorcycle.
He said, “Having got hold of the couple, they forced the husband, Kehinde Fatinoye to transfer money from his account to “Kuda” bank account of Ahmed Odetola, but the transfer failed. It was then Lekan Adekanbi gave the deceased his own Access bank account to which the sum of N1, 102, 000 (One million one hundred and two thousand) was transferred at gunpoint”.
Since Lekan realized that his identity has been known through his bank account, he decided with others to terminate the life of the couple, consequent upon which Waheed Adeniyi a.k.a Koffi took a knife from their kitchen and slaughtered the husband Kehinde Fatinoye, while Lekan Adekanbi used sledge hammer he purposely brought for the operation to hit the wife Bukola Fatinoye on the head and she died on the spot”.
While the operation was going on, the State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), further disclosed that the only son of the deceased, Oreoluwa Fatinoye and their adopted son, Felix Olorunyomi walked in while the operation was going on “and the hoodlums pounced on them too: tied them with rope and drove them to Ogun River Bridge at Adigbe where they threw the two of them into the river.
“Luck however, smiled at Felix Olorunyomi when the rope on his hand loosed and he was able to swim out of the river. But Oreoluwa was not that lucky as his dead body was recovered the following day.”