One of the two suspects, who
attacked and murdered the wife of the Managing Director of Maersk Line, has
been arrested from his hiding spot on a Mango tree.
He was arrested after he was
sighted by a police commissioner, Hakeem Odumosu, where he was hiding on a
mango tree.
The two suspects, Goke Olamilekan
and Akande Adeyinka, had, last Sunday, invaded the Lugard, Ikoyi, Lagos State,
home of Gilda Tohouo, stabbing the shipping line boss in different places with
two different knives.
The police in the state in an
operation, personally led by the state police commissioner, had less than an
hour after the attack, arrested an electrician in the estate, Goke Olamilekan,
said to have invited one of his friends, Akande Adeyinka, to carry out the
dastardly act.
One of the two suspects, Akande,
had reportedly climbed a mango tree and was hiding when the police boss beamed
his torchlight on him and was promptly arrested.
Preliminary investigations by the
police revealed that the two suspects had planned the operation for three
weeks, before eventually carrying it out last Sunday.
The police also found out that
the suspects hid their weapons in one of the vacant flats in the estate and
strategized on how to carry out the operation.
The electrician had told his
partner in the crime to lie to the security men that he was going to see a
certain Mr Max, which coincidentally is the name of one of the residents of the
estate.
A police source, who spoke under
the condition of anonymity described the Sunday night operation by the police
team as “effective and timely “and added that the two suspects would have
escaped from the scene if the police commissioner had not arrived.
The police source also said that
the insistence of the Lagos State
police boss that they should
search everywhere around the estate, despite the darkness, helped in the arrest
of the suspects.
The top police source said “the
CP was on patrol when he received the distress call and he swiftly moved to the
scene, where he mobilised the divisional police officer (DPO) and the Area
Commander in the area.
“It was dark and everybody wanted
to go home but the CP insisted that we must do something that would help in not
just the investigation but also to quickly arrest the perpetrators.“
The top police boss also said
that “It was an effective and timely operation. Those boys would have escaped
if the CP had not gone there himself. They were hiding and no one would have
thought that somebody was on the tree.”
He also stated that “at a time,
people felt that it was late and that everybody should go but the CP went to
his vehicle and brought out a torch. It was very sharp. He was beaming the
light in different directions, when he pointed it up the tree and there, one of
the suspects was hiding.
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