The Ogun State Police Command on Thursday confirmed the arrest of all the suspects involved in the assassination of a former Central Bank of Nigeria official, Kehinde Fatinoye, his wife, and his son.
Recall that the suspects on the 1st of January, 2023 had murdered the couple in their house and burnt their corpse with the house.
The suspects thereafter abducted their son and their househelp, whose corpse was discovered in a river days after his parents were killed.
The househelp who escaped the attack had accused the driver of the deceased, Lekan Adekanbi of being the mastermind of the attack.
Adekanbi during interrogation revealed why he murdered the couple and their son.
During interrogation, Adekanbi who has been the couple’s driver since 2018 confessed to being the mastermind of the dastardly act.
He stated that he invited the other two suspects Ahmed Odetola, also known as, Akamo and Waheed Adeniyi, popularly called Koffi to join him to rob the couple.
Adekanbi confessed further that he took the step because the couple refused to increase his salary, and that he approached them for a loan to buy a motorcycle, but they didn’t oblige him.
He revealed that on a fateful day, he and his two accomplices waited for the couple to come back from crossover service since he has access to the house and they pounced on them immediately after they entered the house.
The suspect when asked why the Alsatian dog in the house did not attack them, he stated that the dog is very familiar with him being the person who always feeds it.
He added that after they got hold of the couple, they forced the husband, Kehinde Fatinoye to transfer money from his account to the “Kuda” bank account of Ahmed Odetola, but the transfer failed. It was then Lekan Adekanbi who gave the deceased his Access bank account to which the sum of #1,102,000 (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 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.
He noted that while the operation was going on, the only son of the deceased, Oreoluwa Fatinoye and their adopted son, Felix Olorunyomi walked in 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.
Waheed and Ahmed were both apprehended at Ogere on Thursday 9th of February 2023.
The three suspects who are members of Aye confraternity have all confessed to their various roles in the gruesome and callous murder of the family.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, CP Frank Mba has ordered the suspects to be charged to court as soon as possible.
