Following the murder on December 11, 2016 of a Commandant, Command Secondary School, Apata, Ibadan, Col. Anthony Okeyim, the 2 Division of Nigerian Army in collaboration with the DSS, Ibadan, has arrested six persons.
Okeyim’s lifeless body was on December 12, 2016 found in his house within the premises of the school as he was said to have been killed around 10p.m on the previous day.
Deputy Director, Public Relations, 2 Division of the Nigerian Army, Ibadan, Col Timothy Antigha, disclosed this yesterday during a press conference he jointly addressed with Commander, 2 Division Provost Group, Col Abdullahi Ibrahim, at the Ojoo headquarters of the division in Ibadan.
Autopsy reports said the deceased died as a result of rise in intacranial pressure from intracranial hemorrhage caused by fracture of the skull. He was said to have been promoted to the rank of Brigadier three weeks before his death and he was waiting to be fully decorated with his new rank as at the time he was assassinated.
The suspects according to the Army are: Solomon Agada Emmanuel, (20) Bibisoye Kehinde, (27); Taiwo Adeniyi, (34), Ewere Andrew (25), Ephraim Obi, (38), and Udobata Onusa, (28). According to a report, the first suspect allegedly planned the operation because he used to be a student of the school and he knew the in and out of the school. He was said to have been expelled by the school authorities over an alleged theft of N70, 000.
The Army on behalf of the General Officer Commanding of the division, Major Gen Chukwunedum Abrahamu, the evidence that linked the suspects to the incident were presented and handed over to the police for further investigation. Antigha said: “I am pleased to inform you that a breakthrough has been made in the investigation.
We have in our custody, six individuals, who we have reasons to believe played varying roles in the killing of the late senior officer in his residence.
“On the day the late senior officer was killed, it was reported that his cell phone was stolen. The phone, a Samsung X4 phone was found in the possession of the first suspect, Solomon Agada Emmanuel.
He claimed he got the phone from the third suspect, Taiwo Adeniyi. “He (Adeniyi) also stated that on the night of December 11, 2016, he and other suspects named above went to Command Secondary School, Apata in ash coloured Toyota Camry car, belonging to the fifth suspect (Ephraim Obi).
“The second suspect (Bibisoye Kehinde, fondly called Efrebor), confirmed that the fifth suspect’s car was used for the murder. He admitted that he was the one who switched off the generator in the deceased officer’s house before the murder.
He described the late senior officer vividly, as well as the dress the deceased officer wore at the time of their attack. The third suspect (Taiwo Adeniyi) stated that he was notified of the plot to attack the late senior officer by the second suspect.
